Movies - Looker

	Movies - Looker

Looker is a 1981 science fiction thriller. It stars Albert Finney, Susan Dey and James Coburn and was written and directed by Michael Crichton.

Plastic surgeon Dr. Larry Roberts (Finney) is puzzled when some of the gorgeous models he works on ask for procedures so minor that they'd be imperceptible to the naked eye. He gets suspicious when these same models start dying in mysterious ways. Could a new company that develops advertising technologies be behind the deaths?

The advertising corporation rates the models they use for commercials based on numerous criteria. When the models aren't found to be perfect, they get surgery in order to meet the stringent guidelines. Even after they get the procedures performed, however, they aren't as effective as they'd like, so they start modelling the girls digitally and animating them artificially.

These deals seem to be incredibly lucrative for the models: once their bodies are represented digitally, they get a paycheck for life, never having to work again since their digital model is used for all their future work.

However, when these models start dying under mysterious circumstances, Roberts becomes suspicious and decides to investigate. He has a vested interest in getting to the bottom of the deaths: his girlfriend is the latest of the models to be digitally modelled.

During his investigation, Roberts uncovers some high-tech devices the corporation is using to hypnotize consumers into buying the products they advertise. He also uncovers the L.O.O.K.E.R. gun, a device that can instantly mesmerize its victims. Will it be the key to solving the web of intrigue?

Trivia

Looker was the first movie to attempt to make a realistic computer generated character, for the model called "Cindy.". It was also the first movie to create 3-D shading with a computer.
This film contains a fair bit of nudity, though none of it is sexual. Despite this, the nudity earned this film an R rating in the US.

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