D.O.A. (1988 film)

D.O.A. (1988 film)
D.O.A.

Theatrical release poster
Directed by Annabel Jankel,
Rocky Morton
Produced by Ian Sander,
Laura Ziskin
Written by Charles Edward Pogue(screenplay)
Russell Rouse
Clarence Greene
Charles Edward Pogue(story)
Starring Dennis Quaid,
Meg Ryan,
Charlotte Rampling,
Daniel Stern
Music by Chaz Jankel
Cinematography Yuri Neyman
Editing by Raja Gosnell,
Michael R. Miller
Distributed by Touchstone Pictures (USA, theatrical)
Release date(s) March 18, 1988
Running time 96 min
Country United States
Language English
Budget $29 million

D.O.A. is a 1988 very loose remake of the 1950 film noir of the same name, sharing the same premise but otherwise having a different story and characters.

The film was directed by Annabel Jankel and Rocky Morton, the creators of Max Headroom, and scripted by Charles Edward Pogue. The writers of the original film, Russell Rouse and Clarence Greene, share story credit with Pogue.

It stars Dennis Quaid, Meg Ryan, and Charlotte Rampling and featured Timbuk 3 playing one of their songs in a bar scene. The movie was filmed in Austin, Texas and San Marcos, Texas.

The tag line for the film is:

Someone poisoned Dexter Cornell. He's got to find out who. He's got to find out why. He's got to find out because in 24 hours, he'll be Dead On Arrival.

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Plot

A man staggers into the police station to report a murder. When the desk sergeant asks who was murdered, he answers: "I was."

That man is Professor Dexter Cornell (Dennis Quaid), who then sits down to video tape his account.

Thirty-six hours previously, Cornell, is on campus. He is a college professor, was once a promising writer, made his name and is secure in his tenure, but he has spent the last four years going though the motions and playing it safe. "Publish or perish" is the contrasting rule of university politics and Cornell helps his friend Hal Petersham (Daniel Stern) with his first book.

While he is in his office, a promising student, Nick Lang (Robert Knepper), jumps off a building right outside his office in an apparent suicide. This is coupled with the depressing Christmas season, unseasonably hot weather and the divorce papers given to him by his wife Gail (Jane Kaczmarek) in leading Cornell to the local bars for a night of drinking. There he meets admiring student Sydney Fuller (Meg Ryan) and they proceed to get drunk.

The next morning, Cornell, feeling his sickness is more than just a hangover, stops by the campus medical clinic for a checkup. After running some tests, they discover that he has been poisoned and has 36 hours to live. An incredulous Cornell staggers out to try to make sense of it all.

Aided by Fuller, whom he kidnaps by super-gluing himself to her arm, he attempts to recreate the events of the previous night hoping to discover who could have murdered him. The list of suspects includes his wife, who is also the victim of a murder, which the police make half-hearted efforts to pin on Cornell.

It is learned that Lang was not a suicide but was also murdered. Cornell also suspects Lang's mentor Mrs. Fitzwaring (Charlotte Rampling), Bernard (Christopher Neame) the Fitzwarings' chauffeur and Graham Corey (Jay Patterson), a jealous co-worker.

In the end, at the police station, Cornell has solved the crime. He staggers out to meet his fate.

Cast

Reviews

D.O.A. opened to mixed reviews and currently has a rating of 61% on Rotten Tomatoes. Film critic Roger Ebert called it a "witty and literate thriller",[1] while Caryn James of The New York Times called it "one of the season's biggest disappointments".[2]

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