1981
PG
The Ladd Company
1 h 33 m

1981
PG
The Ladd Company
1 h 33 m

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 - activ...

Directed By: Michael Crichton

Written By: Michael Crichton

1981
PG
The Ladd Company
1 h 33 m

1981
PG
The Ladd Company
1 h 33 m

Looker

Name: Looker
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Released: 1981-10-30
Duration: 1 min 33 s
Rating: 20
Cast: Albert Finney, James Coburn, Susan Dey, Leigh Taylor-Young, Dorian Harewood

Metascore Generally Unfavorable Based on 9 Critic Reviews

User Score Mixed or Average Based on 7 User Ratings

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Directed By: Michael Crichton

Written By: Michael Crichton

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Generally Unfavorable Based on 9 Critic Reviews

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Generally Unfavorable Based on 9 Critic Reviews

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Time Out

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.

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The New Yorker

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.

By Pauline Kael FULL REVIEW

Variety

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.

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The New York Times

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

By Vincent Canby FULL REVIEW

The Globe and Mail (Toronto)

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]

By Jay Scott FULL REVIEW

Washington Post

In a glaring case of the pot insulting the kettle, the Michael Crichton film Looker keeps sneering at television for being mindless and lascivious trash. Actually, "Looker" is so mindless it doesn't even justify its own silly premise, and so lascivious that it keeps announcing that its own collection of indistinguishably bland starlets represents physical perfection. [30 October 1981, p.17]

By Judith Martin FULL REVIEW

Washington Post

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

By Gary Arnold FULL REVIEW

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Production Company The Ladd Company, Warner Bros.

Release Date Oct 30, 1981

Duration 1 h 33 m

Rating PG

Genres

Tagline There's a lot more to her than meets the eye.

Website https://mt2.org/uyeler/looker.11625/

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Awards

Brussels International Festival of Fantasy Film (BIFFF)

• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

Avoriaz Fantastic Film Festival

• 1 Nomination

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Albert Finney

Dr. Larry Roberts

James Coburn

John Reston

Susan Dey

Cindy Fairmont

Leigh Taylor-Young

Jennifer Long

Dorian Harewood

Lieutenant Masters

Tim Rossovich

Moustache Man

Darryl Hickman

Dr. Jim Belfield

Kathryn Witt

Tina Cassidy

Terri Welles

Lisa Convey

Michael Hawkins

Senator Robert Harrison

Ashley Cox

Candy

Donna Kei Benz

Ellen

Catherine Parks

Jan

Terry Kiser

Commercial Director

Georgann Johnson

Cindy's Mother

Richard Venture

Cindy's Father

Anthony Charnota

Master's Assistant

Terrence E. McNally

Technician in Scanning Room

David Adams

D.M.I. Guard

John Sanderford

D.M.I. Policeman

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