Brainstorm
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Short description
Two research scientists, Michael Brace and Lillian Reynolds, have built a machine that records a person's sensory and emotional experiences onto tape and lets someone else play them back. Michael hopes the device can help him reconnect with his wife, Karen, but the project is taken away from the pair and pushed toward military use, which causes psychological damage in its subjects. When Lillian records her own death, the tape becomes the most valuable and dangerous record the team has.
Douglas Trumbull directed the film, his second feature after Silent Running in 1972, and also produced it. The screenplay is by Robert Stitzel and Philip Frank Messina. Christopher Walken plays Michael Brace, Natalie Wood plays Karen Brace, Louise Fletcher plays Lillian Reynolds, and Cliff Robertson, Jordan Christopher and Donald Hotton appear in supporting roles. The film runs 106 minutes and was made by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Released in September 1983, the film earned about 10 million dollars worldwide against a budget of 18 million. On IMDb it holds a rating of 6.4 from roughly 14,000 votes, while on TMDB it stands at 6.2 from about 285 votes. A critics' rating of 5.8 from 21 reviews places it close to the audience scores.
What's left behind the scenes
- Towards the end of filming, Natalie Wood (1938-1981) died, and the studio management tried to cover up the project and claim insurance by stating that director Douglas Trumbull would no longer complete the project. However, according to the terms of the contract, this decision was up to Trumbull himself, and he decided to finish filming, using doubles instead of Wood and shooting scenes with her character from new angles. The studio was not thrilled with this decision, so "Brainstorm" became Trumbull’s last Hollywood project. After that, he focused on IMAX format films, working on attractions in amusement parks, and the like.
- Natalie Wood's younger sister, Lana Wood, participated in the filming of some scenes after Natalie Wood's death.
- By the time Natalie Wood signed the contract to star in this film, she hadn't worked for two years and had gained 11 kilograms. Before filming began, she went on a radical diet to lose weight, but then, due to an excessive fondness for alcohol, she began to gain weight again.
- After Natalie Wood's death, several scenes with water that had already been filmed were cut from the film. In one such scene, Wood's and Christopher Walken's characters dive into a pool, and in another, these characters row canoes in a pond.
- "Paradise" was filmed by making a hole in a sheet of steel and placing a powerful quartz lamp directly behind it, shining through a piece of scratched plastic.
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