D.O.A.
by Annabel Jankel, Rocky Morton
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Actor: Charlotte Rampling, Daniel Stern, Dennis Quaid, Jane Kaczmarek, Meg RyanDirector: Annabel Jankel, Rocky Morton
Brand: Buena Vista Home Video
Producer: Andrew J. Kuehn
Producer: Cathleen Summers
Producer: Ian Sander
Writer: Charles Edward Pogue
Writer: Clarence Greene
Writer: Russell Rouse
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 96 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-10-14
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Walt Disney Video
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- Time. It's running out for Dexter Cornell (Dennis Quaid). He has just 24 hours to find out who poisoned him . and why. In his bizarre and deadly search, everyone has a secret. Everyone is a suspect. Even the woman (Meg Ryan) who loves him. Directed by Rocky Morton and Annabel Jankel, creators of superstar "Max Headroom," D.O.A. pulsates with explosive action and sizzling performances by Quaid
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DVD Review: NOT AS GOOD AS THE ORIGINAL
Summary: 3 Stars
This is a remake of the 1949 movie of the same name that was superior in every way. It goes for a Hitchcockian style of mystery but the directors are not nearly as skilled. It does have a fairly fast pace to it which lifts it to a three star rating however.
The always likable Dennis Quaid is Dexter Cornell, an English Professor and author who is generally a beaten down wretch of a man. He's a borderline alcoholic, his wife is leaving him and one of his students apparently commits suicide by jumping from a window. He drinks himself into a stupor and when he feels especially terrible he learns that somehow he had been poisoned and has only 24 hours(give or take) to live and find out who poisoned him. He enlists the aid of one of his students, Sydney Fuller (Meg Ryan). Enlists isn't the right word. He puts superglue on his hand and grabs her wrist, locking them together. I guess the handcuffs of the original was a bit too mundane.
I like Dennis Quaid but found his portrayal just to be way too melodramatic in this film, far moreso than Edmund O'Brien's in the original. And Meg Ryan just comes off as ditzy and a little too old to be playing a college student. I know she has that young, fresh face but she was 27 at the time of this film and it strained credibility. Add to that this film has a very annoying musical score througout that seems wildy inappropriate for this type of film.
Some good things are the style in which it was filmed. There's some interesting angles and subtle things going on that makes it a cut above average. Not bad but not great.
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