BrainStorm Movie Review

Starring: Christopher Walken, Natalie Wood, Cliff Robertson, Louise Fletcher

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"Brain researchers Dr. Michael Brace (Walken) and colleague Dr. Lillian Reynolds (Fletcher), toiling for many years together, have made an amazing breakthrough with a brain-scanning helmet. The brain memory reading and recording capabilities of this revolutionary device they have invented does not go unnoticed by sinister boss Alex Terson (Robertson) who is planning to turn over the device to the military, which has funded the project in secret. The military plans to put the device to use for brainwashing and indoctrination. Reynolds has a heart attack while working on the project alone and manages to record her death on the machine. Terson takes the tape and Dr. Brace is outraged by the breach of ethics. Despite their shaky marriage, wife Karen (Wood) helps him to recover the tape and keep the helmet out of the hands of the military by sabotaging the project. Dr. Brace is able to experience what happens after death via the brain scan recorder by playing the tape of the late Dr. Reynold's incredible journey to the afterlife for himself. Karen Brace pulls her husband back from the brink of death as he gets too engrossed in the device."
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Plot

Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 30%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzle - 30%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 40%

**Fantasy or Science Fiction?** - science fiction story
Character operated on/altered? Yes
Kind of alteration: - given another personality/identity

Main Character
Identity: - Male
Profession/status: - scientist
Age: - 20's-30's
Eccentric: Yes - obsessed
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events? Yes
Hair color? - brunette (Brown)
Hair type - (man) short/medium straight
Body type - average (man)
Events of movie makes character more... - irritated
Ethnicity/Nationality - White (American)
How sensitive is this character? - middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor? - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Genius
Physique - average physique

Secondary Main Character
Identity: - Female
Hair color - brunette (Brown)
Hair style - (woman) medium/shoulderlgn, straight
Body type - ample chest & buttocks (female)
How much in movie? - 60%
Ethnicity/Nationality - White (American)

Main Adversary
Identity: - Male
Age: - 40's-50's
Profession/status: - scientist
Eccentric: Yes - deluded
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in: - 80%
Hair color - brunette (Brown)
Hair style - (man) short/standard straight
Body type - average (man)
Ethnicity - White
Intelligence - Smarter than most other characters
Physical condition - average physique
How sensitive is this character? - hard edged

Setting
Earth setting: - 20th century (1970's to Present)
Takes place on Earth? Yes
Big cities? Yes
Misc settings - lab

Style
Accounts of torture and death? - explicit references to deaths

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