Looker

Name: Looker
Genre: Sci-Fi, Drama, Thriller
Released: October 30, 1981
Duration: 93 min
Rating: 20
Cast: Albert Finney, Darryl Hickman, Dorian Harewood, James Coburn, Kathryn Witt

1981

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The Ladd Company | Release Date: October 30, 1981 | PG

Starring: Albert Finney, Darryl Hickman, Dorian Harewood, James Coburn, Kathryn Witt, Leigh Taylor-Young, Michael Hawkins, Susan Dey, Terri Welles, Tim Rossovich

Summary: Plastic surgeon Larry Roberts performs a series of minor alterations on a group of models who are seeking perfection. The operations are a resounding success. But when someone starts killing his beautiful patients, Dr. Roberts becomes suspicious and starts investigating. What he uncovers are the mysterious - and perhaps murderous -Plastic surgeon Larry Roberts performs a series of minor alterations on a group of models who are seeking perfection. The operations are a resounding success. But when someone starts killing his beautiful patients, Dr. Roberts becomes suspicious and starts investigating. What he uncovers are the mysterious - and perhaps murderous - activities of a high-tech computer company called Digital Matrix.… Expand

Director: Michael Crichton

Genre(s): Sci-Fi, Drama, Thriller

Rating: PG

Runtime: 93 min

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Mostly pretty silly and uncertain whether to be tongue-in-cheek, it has one or two good scenes and some intriguing hardware, including the Looker (Light Ocular Oriented Kinetic Energetic Responsers) disorientation gun. Read full review

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Writer-director Michael Crichton has used interesting material, public manipulation by computer-generated TV commercials, to create Looker, a silly and unconvincing contempo sci-fi thriller. Read full review

Pauline Kael

This picture seems ingenious at the start, but Crichton can't write people, and he directs like a technocrat. This is the emptiest of his pictures to date.

Vincent Canby

The premise, though, is the only satisfying thing about Looker, which Mr. Crichton has directed from his own original, stupifyingly nonsensical screenplay. Read full review

Jay Scott

Why are movies about sophisticated technology and hidden persuaders and subliminal seduction - Agency is the other example that springs immediately to mind - so technically sloppy, so incapable of persuading even the smallest child of their plausibility and so utterly unable to seduce someone dying to be ravished by a well-made thriller? [2 Nov 1981]

TV Guide Magazine Staff (Not Credited)

[A]confusing, silly story. Read full review

Gary Arnold

Despite formidable competition, Looker makes a persuasive case for Stinker of the Year among suspense thrillers. [30 Oct 1981, p.C6]

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