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''D.O.A.'' Is a 1988 neo-noir/thriller film directed by [[Film/SuperMarioBros1993 Rocky Morton and Annabel Jankel]] with a screenplay by [[Film/TheFly1986 Charles]] [[Film/PsychoIII Edward]] [[Film/{{Dragonheart}} Pogue]] from a story by Pogue, Russell Rouse and Clarence Greene. A loose remake of the 1949 film of the same name, the film stars Creator/DennisQuaid, Creator/MegRyan, Creator/DanielStern, Creator/JaneKaczmarek, Creator/ChristopherNeame, Creator/BrionJames, and Creator/CharlotteRampling.
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''D.O.A.'' Is is a 1988 neo-noir/thriller film directed by [[Film/SuperMarioBros1993 Rocky Morton and Annabel Jankel]] with a screenplay by [[Film/TheFly1986 Charles]] [[Film/PsychoIII Edward]] [[Film/{{Dragonheart}} Pogue]] from a story by Pogue, Russell Rouse and Clarence Greene. A loose remake of the 1949 film of the same name, the film stars Creator/DennisQuaid, Creator/MegRyan, Creator/DanielStern, Creator/JaneKaczmarek, Creator/ChristopherNeame, Creator/BrionJames, and Creator/CharlotteRampling.
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''D.O.A.'' Is a 1988 neo-noir/thriller film directed by [[Film/SuperMarioBros1993 Rocky Morton and Annabel Jankel]] with a screenplay by [[Film/TheFly1986 Charles]] [[Film/PsychoIII Edward]] [[Film/{{Dragonheart}} Pogue]] from a story by Pogue, Russell Rouse and Clarence Greene. A loose remake of the 1949 film of the same name, the film stars Creator/DennisQuaid, Creator/MegRyan, Creator/DanielStern, Creator/JaneKaczmarek, Creator/ChristopherNeame, Creator/BrionJames, and Creator/CharlotteRampling.
Dexter Cornell (Quaid) is a Texas college literature professor with a lot on his mind: the combined stress of helping his friend Hal (Stern), a pending divorce from his wife Gail (Kaczmarek), the unseasonably hot Christmas weather, and the recent suicide of a promising student leads him to a night of [[DrowningMySorrows heavy drinking]] at the local bars. Unfortunately, this will turn out to be his last night out: the next morning, a suspicion that the discomfort he feels is more than a hangover sends him to the university medical clinic, where tests show that he’s been poisoned with a slow-acting toxin and it’s already been absorbed into his body, [[YourDaysAreNumbered leaving him with 36 hours to live.]]
With the aid of admiring student Sydney Fuller (Ryan), Dexter uses his last hours retracing his steps on the fateful night, in a desperate bid to find out who killed him and why, leading to an uncovering of skeletons in the closet of a rich widow (Rampling), a body count, and an unthinkable betrayal…
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!!''D.O.A.'' contains examples of the following tropes:
*BitchInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler:Hal appears to be a genial, humble friend to Dexter, but is shown in TheReveal to be capable of murder in order to overcome writer’s block and achieve tenure.]]
*BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Dexter will soon succumb to the poison, but he has made Hal pay for his crimes.]]
*ChainedHeat: Dexter kidnaps Sydney in a variation of this, supergluing his hand to her arm.
*DestinationDefenestration: [[spoiler:Hal flies out the office window after Dexter shoots him.]]
*NailEm: Dexter and Sydney are attacked at one point by an assailant wielding a pneumatic nail gun.
*YourDaysAreNumbered: The driving point of the plot: Dexter has been slipped a slow-acting poison and has 36 hours left to live.
Dexter Cornell (Quaid) is a Texas college literature professor with a lot on his mind: the combined stress of helping his friend Hal (Stern), a pending divorce from his wife Gail (Kaczmarek), the unseasonably hot Christmas weather, and the recent suicide of a promising student leads him to a night of [[DrowningMySorrows heavy drinking]] at the local bars. Unfortunately, this will turn out to be his last night out: the next morning, a suspicion that the discomfort he feels is more than a hangover sends him to the university medical clinic, where tests show that he’s been poisoned with a slow-acting toxin and it’s already been absorbed into his body, [[YourDaysAreNumbered leaving him with 36 hours to live.]]
With the aid of admiring student Sydney Fuller (Ryan), Dexter uses his last hours retracing his steps on the fateful night, in a desperate bid to find out who killed him and why, leading to an uncovering of skeletons in the closet of a rich widow (Rampling), a body count, and an unthinkable betrayal…
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!!''D.O.A.'' contains examples of the following tropes:
*BitchInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler:Hal appears to be a genial, humble friend to Dexter, but is shown in TheReveal to be capable of murder in order to overcome writer’s block and achieve tenure.]]
*BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Dexter will soon succumb to the poison, but he has made Hal pay for his crimes.]]
*ChainedHeat: Dexter kidnaps Sydney in a variation of this, supergluing his hand to her arm.
*DestinationDefenestration: [[spoiler:Hal flies out the office window after Dexter shoots him.]]
*NailEm: Dexter and Sydney are attacked at one point by an assailant wielding a pneumatic nail gun.
*YourDaysAreNumbered: The driving point of the plot: Dexter has been slipped a slow-acting poison and has 36 hours left to live.
