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D.O.A. [VHS] [1989]

VHS ~ Dennis Quaid
4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)

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  • Actors: Dennis Quaid, Meg Ryan, Charlotte Rampling, Daniel Stern, Jane Kaczmarek
  • Directors: Annabel Jankel, Rocky Morton
  • Format: Dolby, PAL, Surround Sound
  • Language English
  • Classification: 15
  • Studio: Cinema Club
  • VHS Release Date: 7 Oct 2002
  • Run Time: 93 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • ASIN: B00004D32R
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 31,595 in Video (See Bestsellers in Video)

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Amazon.co.uk Review

A stylish piece of neo-noir, D.O.A. was directed by Rocky Morton and Annabel Jankel during their glory days as creators of Max Headroom. Sometimes mocked at the time for its extravagant visual imagery, this is a film which has aged better than might have been expected. Vastly reworked from the 40s original, D.O.A. stars Dennis Quaid as the burned-out campus novelist who discovers he has been fatally poisoned and sets out to find his killer in the short time left to him, along the way rediscovering his love for the life he is going to lose.

Quaid is good enough both at chain-smoking cynicism and angry zest that this becomes emotionally credible; a worryingly young Meg Ryan is excellent as the hero-worshipping sophomore he co-opts into his search. With camerawork of sometimes hallucinatory vividness, rather too many shots of fans and Ferris wheels, and Charlotte Rampling playing a dragon-lady villainess to the hilt, this is a film which teeters on the brink of camp, but has the courage of its individuality.

On the DVD: D.O.A. comes to disc with almost no special features whatever save for a Spanish soundtrack and subtitles in Spanish and the Scandinavian languages. Its widescreen visual aspect is 1.85:1 and the Dolby sound does full justice to a very loud score by bands like Timbuk 3.--Roz Kaveney



Synopsis

Burned-out author and college professor Dexter Cornell is unwittingly poisoned with a fatal, slow acting toxin and discovers that he has only 24 hours to solve the mystery of his own murder...

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars You Thought You Had A Bad Day?, 18 Jan 2009
By DL Productions UK (Merseyside, UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: D.O.A. [DVD] [1989] (DVD)
Well meet Dexter (Dennis Quaid), a novelist with a long dose of writers block, now has been poisoned and his wife murdered, and now one of his students, great day so far?

He's got to find who killed them all, and why, and more importantly - why does someone want him out of the picture. He has to stay alive the full 24hrs - but more importantly, he has to crack this one open.

Pretty good film, with a great cameo by Meg Ryan, Dennis Quaid plays Dex with skill and is just as good as the 40s version. I think this film has aged well, and looks good today, 20 years on, with it's great filming and film-noir remixed for the 80s style. There are some hairy scenes where things do look rather gruesome, but otherwise this is worth your 90 or so minutes.

Not groundbreaking, but still worth checking out.
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