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Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0085391112044
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: January 30, 2007
Running Time: 93 minutes
Sales Rank: 13520
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: October 30, 1981
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
A plastic surgeon (Albert Finney) gets suspicious when models he has operated on begin to die in mysterious ways. With the help of Cindy (Susan Dey) the next in line to be killed he traces the deaths to a mysterious corporation which develops new technologies. Directed and written by Michael Crichton (Westworld Coma).Running Time: 93 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA UPC: 085391112044 Manufacturer No: 111204
Amazon.com:
Someone is killing the supermodel clients of Hollywood plastic surgeon Albert Finney, and because this is a Michael Crichton movie, there has to be a pop-techno-scientific reason for it. Welcome to the daffy world of Looker, a 1981 film that manages to blend one or two interesting cultural ideas with a dismal storyline and a wonderfully cheesy early-Reagan-era look. The trail of murders leads to a corporation called Digital Matrix (Crichton always was prophetic about naming things), where head honcho James Coburn has launched a nonsensical plan involving TV commercials and mind control. Accused of the model deaths, Finney must track down the real culprit, aided by client Susan Dey (in her most appealing non-TV role). There's also a crazy 'light gun' that causes victims to black out, a device that leads to some very strange shoot-outs. All of this might have been fun if the movie had any kind of suspense or distinctive characters. Albert Finney made this the same year he did Wolfen, after a hiatus from movie acting--a pair of eccentric choices, to be sure. Adding to the silliness is a truly wretched theme song, made the way they made 'em in the early '80s. --Robert Horton
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Kinda offbeat but good
This is a kinda offbeat but interesting movie. James Coburn and Albert Finny give somewhat believable performances. Susan Dey is very good, and there is more to this movie then seeing Laurie Partridge nude, however having said that, Susan Day nude is a plus. Some of the other cast need to take acting classes, and there is a change to see a young Tom Sellec lookalike.
Rating: - Wonderful old movie!
I'm so happy this movie came out on DVD. It has a very catchy theme song as well as a great story line.
Rating: - She's a Looker!!!
When I first saw this movie I thought it was wierd but then I fell in love with it. James Coburn, Albery Finney and the mustache guy who always plays an evil henchman were great. The movie starts out were models were murdered while their faces and bodies were copied for a big company for commericals. Albert Finney plays a plastic surgeon who's looking for answers then gets tangled into the mysterious web. A high-tech gun transforms people into freeze and do the person who used the weapon's bidding. ... Read More
Rating: - Looker
This is an excellent thriller for the time period in which it was created.
Rating: - LOOKER -- Crichton's future is once again too plausible
Though it doesn't stand up as well as I hoped it would after 20+ years, it still retains some of the fun elements that captivated me when I saw it as a teenager. And I'm not just talking about Laurie Partridge in the altogether....
Many of Crichton's novels and movies seem to be close kin to each other -- "Jurassic Park" isn't too far removed from "Westworld", and "Looker" even has a shade or two in common with "Runaway". Despite the overlapping premises, Crichton has a compellingly ... Read More
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