Eye Candy #16 - "Looker"

Looker: Here comes the confession of someone who was apparently an even stranger child than he remembers - I used to watch "Looker" any opportunity I could back during the early 80's. It was a staple of HBO, and I thought, in my 8-9 year old mind, that this was somehow "edgy" sci-fi worth repeated viewing. Now, upon further review, I had the cinema taste of a turnip. I wasn't even watching this movie all those times because of the GRATUITOUS NUDITY (it starts in the opening credits!)!! I was watching it for the PLOT! How pathetic can you get? And why did my parents let me watch this movie more than one time, if at all?! Albert Finney plays the old stereotype of a plastic surgeon with a heart of a gold who starts looking into why a group of superficial models he worked on are killing themselves in out-of-nowhere suicides. Turns out it's all the fault of media magnate James Coburn, who is attempting to hypnotize people through advertising. So he teams up with Susan Dey (yep, she gets nekkid) to stop him. Didn't know it was directed by author Michael Crichton, but it's certainly a worse effort than "Runaway" or "The Great Train Robbery". Valuable as a curio and that's it. I'm sure Albert Finney would like to forget his connection to this movie about this as much as I do.