Self/less (2015) on Netflix
PG-1320151h 57mActionMysterySci-Fi
Damian Hale, a wealthy man dying of cancer, undergoes a procedure that moves his consciousness into a younger body. He fakes his death and starts over in New Orleans as Edward Kidner.
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- Rotten Tomatoes18%
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Plot summary
Damian Hale, a wealthy New Yorker, learns that his cancer is terminal. A business card leads him to Professor Albright, who describes a procedure called shedding that moves a person's consciousness into a new body. Damian agrees, fakes his public death, and wakes in the body of a younger man. Albright gives him medication for hallucinations that he calls a side effect. Starting over in New Orleans under the name Edward Kidner, Damian befriends his neighbor Anton. When he misses a dose, he sees a woman and a child he does not know. Damian questions Albright, who dismisses the visions, though he mentions details Damian never disclosed.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Self/less (2015)
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- FilmNation pre-sold the film at the 2013 Cannes festival, where it became the first film to completely sell out; the strong pre-sales limited the two financiers' exposure to the budget.
- A sequence shortly after the film begins, showing Damian Hale in his elaborate Manhattan apartment, was shot in the three-story Trump Tower penthouse that served as Donald and Melania Trump's primary residence until 2017.
