D.O.A. |  | Actors: Dennis Quaid, Meg Ryan, Charlotte Rampling, Daniel Stern, Jane Kaczmarek
Studio: Walt Disney Video
Category: DVD
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Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 15843
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 97 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 786936209747
UPC: 786936209747
EAN: 0786936209747
ASIN: B00008L3U3
Theatrical Release Date: March 18, 1988
Release Date: October 14, 2003
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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 powerfully. 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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Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: R
Release Date: 31-MAY-2005
Media Type: DVD
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 Couldn't seem to get through it June 18, 2009
Bradley F. Smith (Miami Beach, FL)
Made in 1988, this seems quite dated now. I paused it a few times, but still could not bother to watch the last half. It's just not that compelling, and Meg Ryan as a college student is just plain ditsy. Take a pass.
Interesting remake February 17, 2007
Pink Panther (Florida, USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
If you haven't seen the original version you will enjoy this one. The original one has better atmosphere but this one is not to be ignored. It has a good pace and keeps the viewer interested.
NOT AS GOOD AS THE ORIGINAL June 1, 2005
Tim Janson (Michigan)
5 out of 8 found this review helpful
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.
 excellent film April 18, 2004
Joseph W. Hayes (mobile, alabama United States)
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
This film rocks! it has a great story,great acting and a cool tone. Im not a fan of films that tell you how it ends at the start,but this is a sly @ stylish exception.It has fine camera work and direction.quaid and ryan are dynamite.
not exactly hitch July 26, 2003
D. Howard (Piedmont MO)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Although I liked this film, it's probably because I was an early teen when I saw Quaid and Ryan together in Inner Space. This remake is NOT directed well; it's perhaps the sloppiest directing job I've ever seen. Chemistry is nice between Quaid and Ryan again, but it kind of creeps you out that there's supposed to be an age difference here (I really don't agree that Meg is convincing as a 19-22 year old), and Stern is as menacing here as he is in Home Alone. The script is fairly predictable even if you haven't seen the original, and in general the point of this movie was to showcase the two main stars, not to make a good remake of a good but weird old movie.
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