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Awake Details

2007

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Starring	Hayden Christensen, Jessica Alba, Terrence Howard, Lena Olin
Director	Joby Harold
Genres	Drama, Thriller

Awake

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Young banking heir Clay Beresford (Hayden Christensen – Jumper) has everything – prestige, a beautiful new wife (Jessica Alba – Fantastic Four) and a lucrative career, but what he needs most of all is a life-saving heart transplant. Luckily the perfect donor is found, but joy soon turns to sheer, unmitigated terror, when he finds himself in a situation few dare to imagine. He suffers anaesthetic awareness and is inadvertently left completely alert during the complicated and painful surgery. Physically paralysed but mentally awake, he hears of a conspiracy to have him murdered and realises he is powerless to stop it.

Starring	Hayden Christensen, Jessica Alba, Terrence Howard, Lena Olin, Christopher McDonald, Sam Robards, Arliss Howard
Director	Joby Harold
Studio	ICON HOME ENTERTAINMENT
Run time	DVD: 1 hr 24 mins
Certificate
Genres	Drama, Thriller
Language	DVD: English
Released	Production year: 2007 To Rent: DVD: 25 Aug 2008

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- Christensen delivers a low-key performance that is ultimately quite appealing, and he is well matched by the beautiful Alba
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  - 26 Mar 2011 at 01:32
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  Better than expected
  
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  Awake is a film which is surprisingly better than you would expect. The story, involving someone who is still aware of everything going on when he is being ... read more »
  
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  Oh dear! This really is truly awful. Just don't bother as it is total rubbish. Not so eloquent but true.
  
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  unexpected storyline
  
  Unexpected story line, watchable with twists. A little unbelievable but still good, lead as ever good, supporting cast ok. Worth a watch, don't expect too ... read more »
  
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  kind of ok
  
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  Kind of ridiculously made but none the less quite watchable. His being awake during the procedure didn't really add to the story.
  
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- 31 Mar 2008
This movie should carry a government health warning. If you're facing surgery in the foreseeable future you might want to skip this one, or risk sleepless nights before going under the knife. Awake is also the most contrived thriller I've seen in a long time. But that's not all to the bad. It's more fun watching something twisty (not to say twisted) and original than yet another generic whodunit. Things gets off to a slow start - unless you consider pretty, bland Hayden Christenson and Jessica Read more
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24,174 Member ratings

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  Young banking heir Clay Beresford (Hayden Christensen – Jumper) has everything – prestige, a beautiful new wife (Jessica Alba – Fantastic Four) and a lucrative career, but what he needs most of all is a life-saving heart transplant. Luckily the perfect donor is found, but joy soon ...