Icon Home Entertainment are proud to announce the DVD release
of the edge-of-your-seat thriller, ‘Awake’, on
Monday 25th August. Starring two of Hollywood’s sexiest
actors - Jessica Alba and Hayden Christensen, the film explores
the world of anaesthesia and corruption.
Sexy and suspenseful, AWAKE turns disturbingly real phenomenon
of “aesthetic awareness” – in which surgery
patients, though completely paralyzed, are conscious of everything
they are experiencing, including the pain – into a completely
absorbing thriller.
When failed anaesthesia leaves a rich young tycoon (Hayden
Christensen, Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones,
Jumper), alert but immobilized during open heart surgery,
he overhears a devious plot to have him killed. Co-starring
Jessica Alba (Sin City, Fantastic 4) and Academy Award nominee
Terrence Howard (Iron Man, Crash), AWAKE does for operations
what Jaws did for the beach.
Clayton Beresford, Jr. (Hayden Christensen) seems to have
it all—a gorgeous fiancée named Samantha Lockwood
(Jessica Alba), an adoring mother Lilith (Lena Olin), a thriving
business and all the money a young man could ever want. But
Clay’s life is far from perfect—his relationship
Sam is a secret because she actually works for his overbearing
mother and he is in desperate need of a heart transplant.
Jack Harper (Terrence Howard) is Clay’s friend and his
cardiologist. Jack was there when Clay first had heart trouble
and he helps Clay prepare for the surgery, which will occur
as soon as the doctors can find a donor with Clay’s
rare blood-type. Jack stresses to Clay that he must live everyday
to the fullest, come clean to his mother and marry Sam without
further ado.
When Sam pressures Clay to marry her, he comes clean to his
mother. Lilith responds by offering Sam money to stay out
of their lives. Clay is furious. He grabs Sam and insists
they get married that very night, with Jack by their side
as his Best Man. Shortly after the wedding, Clay’s beeper
goes off. This can only mean one thing—they found Clay
a matching heart donor.
Clay and Sam breeze into the medical centre where they meet
Jack and his colleagues, Dr. Putnam (Fisher Stevens) and Nurse
Carver (Georgina Chapman). Lilith pushes Clay to use Dr. Neyer
(Arliss Howard), who is one of the top cardiologists in the
country. But Clay is adamant that Jack perform the transplant
and that he trusts him despite several pending malpractice
suits. As Clay nervously prepares for surgery, Sam tries to
calm him.
Anaesthesiologist Dr. Larry Lupin (Christopher McDonald) bolts
into the hospital late, explaining that he had been at a wine
tasting. Everyone expresses concern at this admission but
in the end, they decide to proceed with the operation. Dr.
Lupin injects Clay and he gently slips under. At this point,
Clay realizes that he can hear the doctors, still prepping
him for surgery. As Clay feels Jack’s fingers on his
sternum, scalpel in hand, Clay knows he’s in serious
trouble.
Clay is experiencing “anaesthetic awareness,”
where a surgery patient can feel everything being done to
him, but cannot move or speak. Clay can feel everything Jack
and his team does to his body and believes he is suspended
in a nightmare. He hears conversation that don’t belong
and begins to learn that everyone is not who they seem. Clay
begins to realize that he was never meant to wake up from
this operation.
Through several more revelations, Clay’s heart line
reappears on the monitor. Was all of this a dream brought
on by the anaesthesia? Or did everything Clay hear actually
happen? No matter the circumstances, he opens his eyes. He
is awake.
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