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Albert Finney
as Dr. Larry Roberts

James Coburn
as John Reston

Susan Dey
as Cindy

John Reston

Leigh Taylor-Young
as Jennifer Long

Dorian Harewood
as Lt. Masters

Tim Rossovich
as Moustache Man

Darryl Hickman
as Dr. Jim Belfield

Kathryn Witt
as Tina

Terri Welles
as Lisa

Michael D. Gainsborough
as Senator Harrison

Ashley Cox
as Candy

Donna Kei Benz
as Ellen

Catherine Parks
as Jan

Terry Kiser
as Commercial Director

Georgann Johnson
as Cindy's Mother

Richard Venture
as Cindy's Father

Anthony Charnota
as Master's Assistant

Terrence E. McNally
as Technician in Scanning Room

David Adams
as D.M.I. Guard

John Sanderford
as D.M.I. Policeman

Steven Strong

Scott Mulhern
as D.M.I. Policeman

Arthur Taxier
as D.M.I. Truck Technician

Richard Milholland
as D.M.I. Truck Technician

Jeana Tomasina
as Suzy

Barry Jenner
as Commercial Producer

Derrel Maury
as Commercial Assistant Producer

Paul Jasmin
as Steve

Eloise Hardt
as Mrs. Emerson

Melissa Prophet
as Commercial Script Girl

Lila Christianson
as Tammy

Lorna Christianson
as Pammy

Gary Combs
as Non-Descript Man

Kelly Black
as Reston Girl

Kim Marie Johnson
as Reston Girl

Lori Sutton
as Reston Girl

Vanna White
as Reston Girl

Jacqui Evans
as Reston Girl

Theresa Hunt
as Reston Girl

Pamela Jean Bryant
as Reston Girl

Juanita Merrit
as Reston Girl

Carol Teasdale
as Reston Girl

Jackie Forsythe
as Reston Girl

Stefani Kiessig
as Reston Girl

Kathryn Redding
as Reston Girl

Lourinda Cordero
as Reston Girl

Pamela Bromshagen
as Reston Girl

Jerry Douglas
as Laxative Spokesman

Randi Brooks
as Girl in Bikini

Jesse Logan
as Exercise Instructor

Joe Medalis
as Husband

Estelle Omens
as Wife

Steve Strong
as Warrior

Tawny Moyer
as Warrior Housewife

Dick Christie
as Father

Katherine de Hetre
as Mother

Allison Balson
as Daughter

Adam Starr
as Son

Joyce Fell
as Windsurfer

Jerry Flattery
as Windsurfer

Loring Pickering
as Windsurfer

Kelby Anno
as Windsurfer

Randall England
as New Wave Model

Irena Ferris
as New Wave Model

Gavin Gordon
as New Wave Model

Tom Holleron
as New Wave Model

Maile Souza
as New Wave Model

Cynthia Mobley
as New Wave Model

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• Jan 30, 2009

  OK, sci-fi fans, I know I overdid it on the graphics in this rec. (even more so than usual) but the super-coolest thing about this nifty movie is the clever optical stun gun concept and the imaginative use of very simple special effects technology to show how it works. Enjoy! <div style="width:310px;"><a href="http://www.flixster.com/photos/looker-13602872"><img src="http://content6.flixster.com/photo/13/60/28/13602872_gal.jpg" border="0"/></a><div style="text-align:center;font-size:10px;"><a href="http://www.flixster.com"></a> </div></div> <div style="width:310px;"><a href="http://www.flixster.com/photos/looker-13602873"><img src="http://content7.flixster.com/photo/13/60/28/13602873_gal.jpg" border="0"/></a><div style="text-align:center;font-size:10px;"><a href="http://www.flixster.com"></a></div></div> <div style="width:310px;"><a href="http://www.flixster.com/photos/looker-13602876"><img src="http://content6.flixster.com/photo/13/60/28/13602876_gal.jpg" border="0"/></a><div style="text-align:center;font-size:10px;"><a href="http://www.flixster.com"><I></I></a> </div></div> <div style="width:310px;"><a href="http://www.flixster.com/photos/looker-13603059"><img src="http://content9.flixster.com/photo/13/60/30/13603059_gal.jpg" border="0"/></a><div style="text-align:center;font-size:10px;"><a href="http://www.flixster.com"></a> <I>LOOKER</I></div></div> <I>LOOKER</I> (1981) WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY MICHAEL CRICHTON FEATURING: Albert Finney, Tim Rossovich, Susan Dey, James Coburn, Leigh Taylor-Young, and Dorian Harewood GENRE: SCIENCE FICTION TAGS: Mystery PLOT: A plastic surgeon becomes ensnared in a bizarre series of glamour suicides when he discovers the existence of an hypnosis gun. COMMENTS: Doc Roberts (Finney) is plastic surgeon to the vogue and chic. Lately, he's noticed that young actresses who are already perfectly beautiful are coming to him in droves for plastic surgery in order to become even more "perfect." Worse yet, they have a nasty habit of leaping to their deaths nude from the balconies of their high rise condos a short time later. When the police shake down Doc Roberts as a suspect, the conscientious practitioner discovers that all the girls are mixed up with the enigmatic Digital Matrix Corporation. Digital Matrix hires young starlet-hopefuls to be optically laser-scanned so their likenesses can be converted into digitally mastered, computer-animated virtual actresses. Then, for a whopping one-time royalty fee, each likeness can be used perpetually in an unlimited series of television advertisements. When Robert's girlfriend Cindy (Dey), who seems to be in a delightfully perpetual state of semi-nudity throughout the film has the surgery and contracts with Digital Matrix, Roberts decides to play sleuth. Hoping to get to the bottom of the matter before Cindy sails off her balcony and becomes pulp on the bottom of her sky-rise's lightwell, Roberts pokes around at Digital Matrix headquarters. There he discovers a nifty hypnosis gun that blasts the target into a drooling torporous stupor for hours on end -much like the effect of standard prime-time television programming on the masses. The device is an offshoot of some very naughty digital technology that allows pixel-size light signals from the computerized actors' eyes to persuade target audiences to consume, consume, consume! Now what other nefarious uses could such technology lend itself to? Pursued by the police and hypno-stungun wielding Digital Matrix goons, Roberts is due to discover the answer whether he wants to or not. There are some interesting scenes in which, having been zapped into oblivion while getting a beer from the icebox, Roberts comes to hours later with the freezer melting and the contents covered with frost. Worse yet, the tenacious surgeon gets into a Looker shootout during a car chase, with predictable results. <I>Looker's</I> singular sci-fi premise is simply executed in this uncharacteristically gore-free Chricton film. Slightely tongue in cheek, <I>Looker</I> takes the opportunity to draw parallels between time wastage, virtual comatose states, and the anesthetizing, stultifying effects of television. Also satirized are advertising, politics, glamour and general audience gullibility, not to mention mass susceptibility to becoming intellectually crippled by broadcast media. The special effects are simple and dated, but effective. Some of the ideas for the depiction of digital scanning and laser technology were evidently lifted from the earlier <I>Futureworld</I> (streaming on Flixster at last check), the sci-fi sequel to <I>Westworld</I>. <div style="width:310px;"><a href="http://www.flixster.com/photos/looker-13602878"><img src="http://content8.flixster.com/photo/13/60/28/13602878_gal.jpg" border="0"/></a><div style="text-align:center;font-size:10px;"><a href="http://www.flixster.com"></a></div></div> <div style="width:310px;"><a href="http://www.flixster.com/photos/looker-13602879"><img src="http://content9.flixster.com/photo/13/60/28/13602879_gal.jpg" border="0"/></a><div style="text-align:center;font-size:10px;"><a href="http://www.flixster.com"></a> </div></div> <div style="width:310px;"><a href="http://www.flixster.com/photos/looker-13602881"><img src="http://content7.flixster.com/photo/13/60/28/13602881_gal.jpg" border="0"/></a><div style="text-align:center;font-size:10px;"><a href="http://www.flixster.com"></a> </div></div> <div style="width:310px;"><a href="http://www.flixster.com/photos/looker-13602883"><img src="http://content9.flixster.com/photo/13/60/28/13602883_gal.jpg" border="0"/></a><div style="text-align:center;font-size:10px;"><a href="http://www.flixster.com"></a></div></div> <div style="width:310px;"><a href="http://www.flixster.com/photos/looker-13602884"><img src="http://content6.flixster.com/photo/13/60/28/13602884_gal.jpg" border="0"/></a><div style="text-align:center;font-size:10px;"><a href="http://www.flixster.com"></a></div></div> <div style="width:310px;"><a href="http://www.flixster.com/photos/looker-13602885"><img src="http://content7.flixster.com/photo/13/60/28/13602885_gal.jpg" border="0"/></a><div style="text-align:center;font-size:10px;"><a href="http://www.flixster.com"></a> </div></div> <div style="width:310px;"><a href="http://www.flixster.com/photos/looker-13602888"><img src="http://content6.flixster.com/photo/13/60/28/13602888_gal.jpg" border="0"/></a><div style="text-align:center;font-size:10px;"><a href="http://www.flixster.com"></a> </div></div> <div style="width:310px;"><a href="http://www.flixster.com/photos/looker-13603062"><img src="http://content8.flixster.com/photo/13/60/30/13603062_ori.jpg" border="0"/></a><div style="text-align:center;font-size:10px;"><a href="http://www.flixster.com"></a> </div></div> <div style="width:310px;"><a href="http://www.flixster.com/photos/looker-13602890"><img src="http://content8.flixster.com/photo/13/60/28/13602890_gal.jpg" border="0"/></a><div style="text-align:center;font-size:10px;"><a href="http://www.flixster.com"></a> </div></div> <div style="width:310px;"><a href="http://www.flixster.com/photos/looker-13602892"><img src="http://content6.flixster.com/photo/13/60/28/13602892_gal.jpg" border="0"/></a><div style="text-align:center;font-size:10px;"><a href="http://www.flixster.com"></a> </div></div> <div style="width:310px;"><a href="http://www.flixster.com/photos/looker-13602893"><img src="http://content7.flixster.com/photo/13/60/28/13602893_gal.jpg" border="0"/></a><div style="text-align:center;font-size:10px;"><a href="http://www.flixster.com"></a></div></div> <div style="width:310px;"><a href="http://www.flixster.com/photos/looker-13602894"><img src="http://content8.flixster.com/photo/13/60/28/13602894_gal.jpg" border="0"/></a><div style="text-align:center;font-size:10px;"><a href="http://www.flixster.com"></a></div></div> <div style="width:310px;"><a href="http://www.flixster.com/photos/looker-13602895"><img src="http://content9.flixster.com/photo/13/60/28/13602895_gal.jpg" border="0"/></a><div style="text-align:center;font-size:10px;"><a href="http://www.flixster.com"></a> </div></div> <div style="width:310px;"><a href="http://www.flixster.com/photos/looker-13602896"><img src="http://content6.flixster.com/photo/13/60/28/13602896_gal.jpg" border="0"/></a><div style="text-align:center;font-size:10px;"><a href="http://www.flixster.com"></a> </div></div> <div style="width:310px;"><a href="http://www.flixster.com/photos/looker-13602904"><img src="http://content6.flixster.com/photo/13/60/29/13602904_gal.jpg" border="0"/></a><div style="text-align:center;font-size:10px;"><a href="http://www.flixster.com"></a></div></div> <div style="width:120px;font-size:10px;text-align:center;"></div><a href="http://www.flixster.com/videos?videoId=11110925"><img src="http://i.ytimg.com/vi/YKuMguUKGyg/2.jpg" border="0" /></a><div style="font-size:10px;width:120px;text-align:center;"><a href="http://www.flixster.com"><I>LOOKER</I></a> - trailer</div> <div style="width:120px;font-size:10px;text-align:center;"></div><a href="http://www.flixster.com/videos?videoId=11110926"><img src="http://i.ytimg.com/vi/Odj86eBenWk/2.jpg" border="0" /></a><div style="font-size:10px;width:120px;text-align:center;"><a href="http://www.flixster.com">CREEPY CLIP: THE ICEBOX SCENE</a> - <I>LOOKER</I></div>
  Pamela D Super Reviewer
• Jul 13, 2008

  Interesting premise, but very dated (80's) and quite choppy in places. Bring a barf back for the title song.
  Anthony V Super Reviewer

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