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D.O.A. (100%)

Plot: Like Body Heat before it, D.O.A. demonstrates why the noir thriller deserved to be brought back--if done well. This movie, inspired by the 1949 Edmund O'Brien version, begins powerfull...( read more read more... )y. A man stumbles into a police station to report a murder: his own. Writer Dexter Cornell (Dennis Quaid), an unhappy English professor at the University of Texas at Austin, has been poisoned. He has 24 hours to unveil his killer. It's a complex plot of forgotten dreams, dysfunctional relationships, and primarily bitterness. But it's so effectively directed (by Max Headroom's Annabel Jankel and Rocky Morton) and so powerfully acted, it draws its audience into its puzzling and dark, hopeless world. Meg Ryan, who teamed the previous year with her now-husband Quaid in Innerspace, demonstrates her range well. The year before she played a put-upon career woman, but here she is completely credible as sweetly youthful student Sydney Fuller, who has a crush on her professor and becomes embroiled in his tragedy, while falling in love. Other excellent performances include Rob Knepper as aspiring writer-student Nicholas Lang; Charlotte Rampling as Lang's creepy, powerful mother; Jane Kaczmarek as Cornell's ex-wife, and Wonder Years voice Daniel Stern as an ambitious fellow teacher. --N.F. Mendoza

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  • 2.5 Stars
    MCT:
    March 13, 2008
    Comparing this music video film noir to body heat is a sin and will be punished by lashings from a wet noodle.
  • 2.5 Stars
    MCT:
    August 5, 2007
    a marital affair turns seductive and filled with intrigue, it was a good movie not the best of its kind but its title served its point
  • 5.0 Stars
    MCT:
    August 4, 2007
    Dennis Quaid and Meg Ryan do an excellent job to make this movie a very believable situation. I didn't know they could do the remake so well.
  • 2.5 Stars
    MCT:
    April 2, 2007
    Poor remake of the classic Noir. This time the main character is a teacher not a salesman? Count me out.
  • 4.5 Stars
    MCT:
    March 2, 2007
    I LOVE DENNIS QUAID Since JAWS ! SO SEXY HE IS !
    HE did awesome in this movie ! A stick to your seat who caused it movie ! NO Butler, so no he did not do it ! MEG as always was beautiful and GReat actress !
  • 3.5 Stars
    MCT:
    February 18, 2007
    This movie was quite well-made, and had an excellent premise: What if someone poisoned you, and you had to find your killer before you died? Very nice. Somehow, Dennis Quaid pulls it off quite nicely. Meg Ryan is even tolerable in this film as a bubbly college co-ed. I find it quite funny, however, that even on the verge of death and frantically searching for his murderer, Quaid finds enough time to have sex. Play on, playa....
  • 5.0 Stars
    MCT:
    January 30, 2007
    i like the old one too wanted 2 see this. dexter learns that hes gonna have healt problem sw/ the drink!!
  • 2.5 Stars
    MCT:
    January 5, 2007
    A reasonable stab at remaking a classic of the noir genre, but the lightweight leads feel more like a couple looking for a wacky rom com than a gritty thriller, and the twist at the end is unconvincing. The strong concept keeps it watchable however, and Charlotte Rampling's presence in a supporting role adds dramatic gravitas.
  • 4.5 Stars
    MCT:
    September 19, 2006
    Loved the story line. Pity it was made a year after i was BORN!! lol. Excellent excellent they should make a re-make!! Loved Meg in this!! Dennis Quaid you bad ass! :)

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