Looker (1981) on Netflix
PG19811h 33mDramaSci-FiThriller
Beverly Hills plastic surgeon Dr. Larry Roberts gives television models the alterations they request. When his patients start dying, he traces their path to a computer company, Digital Matrix.
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- IMDb6.1/107,093 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes32%
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Plot summary
Lieutenant Masters questions Dr. Larry Roberts, a Beverly Hills plastic surgeon, after three of his patients die. The deaths look like suicides, though their link to Roberts makes him a suspect if they were murders. Each woman worked in television commercials and had come to him for small cosmetic changes she had specified down to the millimeter; all three were beautiful before any surgery. Roberts finds that all of them, and another patient, Cindy Fairmont, have ties to Digital Matrix, a technology research firm headed by Jennifer Long. Long says her company did work for John Reston, who produces commercials and other products, measuring how viewers rate perfection in the people on screen; she says the firm then turned to building three-dimensional computer models of people.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Looker (1981)
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- Looker was the first commercial film to attempt a realistic computer-generated character, the model named Cindy, and the first film to create three-dimensional shading with a computer, months before the better-known Tron was released.
- Michael Crichton began thinking about Looker's subject in 1975, visiting a Los Angeles computer company to learn how commercials could create copies of people without looking ridiculous, and found a Texas company already doing it through a process called tomography.
