| Brain Dead |  | Director: Adam Simon
Actors: Bill Pullman, Bill Paxton, Nicholas Pryor, Patricia Charbonneau, George Kennedy
Studio: New Concorde
Category: DVD
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Sales Rank: 28,784
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Running Time: 85 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 0.6 x 7.5
UPC: 736991435094
EAN: 0736991435094
ASIN: B00004WG8V
Release Date: September 26, 2000
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| Features:
| • | Directed by: Adam Simon | | • | Writers: Adam Simon, Charles Beaumont | | • | Producers: Julie Corman, Lynn Whitney | | • | Cast: Bill Pullman ("Independence Day", "Zero Effect"), Bud Cort ("Harold and Maude"), Bill Paxton ("Aliens", "Frailty"), George Kennedy |
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Product Description
A psychological thriller from the writer of the original "Twilight Zone!" In a showdown of man vs. machine, Martin plunges into a chaotic nightmare trying to save his mind from the megalomaniacal corporation. Format: Color, DVD, NTSC. Language: English. Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.). Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1. Number of discs: 1. Rated: Studio: New Concorde. DVD Release Date: September 26, 2000. Run Time: 85 minutes.
Amazon.com
Adam Simon (Carnosaur) made his directoral debut with this mind game of a movie. Based on a decades-old screenplay by former Twilight Zone contributor Charles Beaumont, Simon dusted off and updated the script about an experimental brain researcher (Bill Pullman) who agrees to dig into the gray matter of a schizophrenic scientist (Bud Cort), only to fall prey to his patient's psychosis. Or maybe he's just plain nuts. Spiced with a bizarre sense of humor (Pullman wrestles over a brain specimen in a jar with a homeless man who tries to grab it: "That's my brain!"), Pullman's ordeal takes one hairpin turn after another as he becomes lost in a maze of alternate realities, no longer able to sort fantasy from reality or paranoia from persecution. This clever puzzle of a film overcomes low-budget restrictions with a deviously inventive story that echoes Brazil and quotes from The Manchurian Candidate and North by Northwest. Bill Paxton costars as a smarmy corporate manipulator with slicked back hair and a get-rich-quick scheme for a chain of brain surgery boutiques ("The New You, by Eunice!"), and George Kennedy is his bottom-line boss. Director Simon may be most famous for playing himself in a jokey cameo in Robert Altman's The Player. --Sean Axmaker
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