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Awake

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Awake	label	Awake
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Awake	comment	Awake is a medical thriller by director Joby Harold, starring Hayden Christensen, Jessica Alba, and Terrence Howard. The film was released in 2007 by The Weinstein Company.Clayton Beresford Jr. (Hayden Christensen) has a lot going for him. He's the heir to a powerful business empire, is obscenely rich, and is engaged to a beautiful, loving woman named Sam (Jessica Alba). However, he has two major problems. The first is that, despite being engaged for six months, he hasn't worked up the nerve to tell his mother that he has been dating her personal assistant behind her back. The second problem is that he has a bad heart... and without a transplant, he could die from a heart attack at any moment.In one fateful evening, his fortune seems to turn. After finally breaking the news to his none-too-pleased mother, he and Sam elope that night. And then, while the newlywed couple prepare to spend their first night together as husband and wife, his pager goes off... and Clayton finds out that a matching heart has just arrived at the hospital. After they noticeably take their time getting to the hospital, Clayton says goodbye to his new bride and his terrified mother as he's wheeled off to the surgical table.As the anesthesia sets in, Clayton thinks of Sam as he prepares to drift off to sleep, confident that he's in the capable hands of his surgeon and best friend Dr. Jack Harper (Terrence Howard). As the minutes go by, he jokingly comments the cocktail his stand-in anesthesiologist gave him doesn't seem to be working, but none of the surgical team pays any attention to him. He starts to realize that something has gone horribly wrong when he can feel them prepping the incision area, and his fears are confirmed when Dr. Harper slices his chest open and begins cracking his ribcage. Clayton is still awake. He can see and feel everything. But no one can hear him.Then, just when he begins to push through the excruciating pain, Clayton hears something that chills him to his very core: his doctors are discussing their plans to kill him by making it look like he received a faulty donor heart. Trapped in his own mind, Clayton futilely screams for help, but to no avail. He's going to die, and there's nothing he can do to stop it.Not to be confused with the TV series Awake, or the 2021 Netflix original sci-fi film.
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Awake / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Awake / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: In a brief scene near the beginning of the film, Sam grabs her mail and sticks it in her purse as she and Clayton are on their way out of her apartment. This becomes important later on when Clayton's mother goes through her purse after finding out that the transplant failed, and finds out that not only was Sam living under an assumed identity... but that she used to be a nurse, who worked with Jack Harper in the past.
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Awake / int_23c8a228	type	Psychological Thriller
Awake / int_23c8a228	comment	Psychological Thriller: Overlapping with Psychological Horror.
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Awake / int_2764d432	type	Bitch in Sheep's Clothing
Awake / int_2764d432	comment	Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Sam who's plotting to have Clayton killed.
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Awake / int_2854b56d	type	Uncertain Doom
Awake / int_2854b56d	comment	Uncertain Doom: Jack. It's implied that he is arrested along with the rest of the surgical team save for Larry for their role in Clay's death, but the last we see of him, he's sitting in his locked office as police attempt to unlock his door, seemingly willing (or even content) to accept his fate.
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Awake / int_315a122	type	Hospital Hottie
Awake / int_315a122	comment	Hospital Hottie: Sam used to be a nurse under Dr. Harper, and to pay off their malpractice lawsuits, she plotted to seduce his rich best friend so they could kill him and get the insurance money.
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Awake / int_33029735	type	Dies Wide Open
Awake / int_33029735	comment	Dies Wide Open: After Lilith commits suicide to give her heart to Clay, Dr. Lupin finds her dead in the hospital cafeteria with her eyes wide open when he goes to offer his condolences and check on her after Clay's death.
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Awake / int_396e1c2a	type	Face Death with Dignity
Awake / int_396e1c2a	comment	Face Death with Dignity: Clay eventually accepts that he's going to die and there's nothing he can do about it, so returns to his apartment in his mind to peacefully wait it out.
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Awake / int_3bc88a7f	type	Foregone Conclusion
Awake / int_3bc88a7f	comment	Foregone Conclusion: Subverted. The film opens with Jack talking about how Clay died during the surgery, so viewers expect the film to have a Downer Ending. As it turns out, Clay ends up clinically dead for a time, but nevertheless survives thanks to his mother.
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Awake / int_40c57041	type	Manipulative Bastard
Awake / int_40c57041	comment	Manipulative Bastard: Sam.
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Awake / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Awake / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Clay survives thanks to his mother's Heroic Sacrifice and everyone involved in the murder plot is arrested, with strong implications that justice will be served in the future. On the other hand, Clay has lost his mother, and the love of his life was not only not who he thought she was, she also conspired to have him killed.
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Awake / int_4583a262	type	Shirtless Scene
Awake / int_4583a262	comment	Shirtless Scene: Clay has a few prior to surgery.
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Awake / int_4cacfcc3	type	Honey Trap
Awake / int_4cacfcc3	comment	Honey Trap: Sam is revealed to have seduced Clayton in a plot to kill him in surgery to get the insurance money.
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Awake / int_590eb583	type	Domestic Abuse
Awake / int_590eb583	comment	Domestic Abuse: Clay's father again.
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Awake / int_62f9d08e	type	Freeze-Frame Bonus
Awake / int_62f9d08e	comment	Freeze-Frame Bonus: Towards the end, when Clay is in his mind preparing to die, Clay's father, in the Santa suit, can be briefly seen in the foreground before the last light in the room goes out.
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Awake / int_6439de78	type	Heroic Sacrifice
Awake / int_6439de78	comment	Heroic Sacrifice: Lilith, after figuring everything out, kills herself so her heart can be transplanted to Clay.
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Awake / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Awake / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: One member of Clayton's surgical team is a young British woman named Penny Carver.
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Awake / int_71521b4d	type	Think Happy Thoughts
Awake / int_71521b4d	comment	Think Happy Thoughts: Clayton tries to cope with the pain of the surgery by thinking of Sam.
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Awake / int_717d735a	type	Suicide by Pills
Awake / int_717d735a	comment	Suicide by Pills: How Lilith dies, in order to give her heart to Clay.
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Awake / int_730e57b4	type	Billy Needs an Organ
Awake / int_730e57b4	comment	Billy Needs an Organ: The story is centered around Clayton's need for a new heart, and the plot of his doctors to make it look as though the transplant was a failure. In the end, his mother (who was previously established as a match for his rare blood type), kills herself so that she can give her heart to her son.
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Awake / int_7870735b	type	From Bad to Worse
Awake / int_7870735b	comment	From Bad to Worse: Clay's realization that he's still conscious is horrifying enough. Then he learns that the surgeons are planning to murder him.
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Awake / int_7eebe99c	type	The Alcoholic
Awake / int_7eebe99c	comment	The Alcoholic: Dr. Larry Lupin, the new anesthesiologist brought in for Clay's surgery. Alarmingly, he even has a flask with him while in the operating room. That said, he was not in on the murder plot, being in truth an undercover officer and all.
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Awake / int_7ef70048	type	Big Bad Friend
Awake / int_7ef70048	comment	Big Bad Friend: Dr. Jack Harper, Clayton's Best Friend, plotted with Sam to kill him.
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Awake / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
Awake / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: The fifth member of the surgical team, an anesthesiologist backs out.
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Awake / int_868409c	type	Broken Pedestal
Awake / int_868409c	comment	Broken Pedestal: Clay gets this many times throughout the film: he learns that both his close friend Jack and his new wife Sam were in on a plot to kill him to get his money and were engaged in an affair and he remembers that his belated father and namesake was a drug addict who beat his mother and abused him as well.
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Awake / int_8d6d9535	type	Artistic License â€“ Medicine
Awake / int_8d6d9535	comment	Artistic License – Medicine: While the caption card that opens the film isn't a complete misrepresentation of the truth, the statistics that it cites include those who feel any degree of Anesthesia Awareness, including those who merely wake up for a second or two and then quickly fall asleep again, and those who have a vague sensation of feeling the doctors operate on them. The number of people who experience the kind of Anesthesia Awareness that Clayton does here is thought to only number a couple of hundred people, worldwide, every year.
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Awake / int_8f612013	type	Token Good Teammate
Awake / int_8f612013	comment	Token Good Teammate: Dr. Larry Lupin, the anesthesiologist. Aside from being an undercover cop, he's the only one who checks on Lilith after Clay's death while the others are covering their tracks.
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Awake / int_957e5fc2	type	Villainous Breakdown
Awake / int_957e5fc2	comment	Villainous Breakdown: When the murder plot is foiled, Sam's façade and demeanour rapidly deteriorate.
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Awake / int_9cede50e	type	Toplessness from the Back
Awake / int_9cede50e	comment	Toplessness from the Back / Side Boob: Sam when she's brushing her teeth naked at the start of the movie and later sitting up in bed post-sex in Clayton's memories.
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Awake / int_a8a04f6f	type	And I Must Scream
Awake / int_a8a04f6f	comment	And I Must Scream: While the anesthetic keeps Clayton totally paralyzed, he can hear every word spoken by his doctors and can feel every cut of Dr. Harper's scalpel... and the saw used to cut open his sternum.
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Awake / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Awake / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Although there's no facial expression to show it due to being paralysed, Clay's tone of voice says it all when he realizes he's still conscious. He reacts similarly when he finds out about the murder plot.
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Awake / int_b11ac9f5	type	Abusive Parents
Awake / int_b11ac9f5	comment	Abusive Parents: Clay's father.
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Awake / int_b58c51d8	type	My Beloved Smother
Awake / int_b58c51d8	comment	My Beloved Smother: Clayton's mother Lilith's over-protective nature is the main reason that he is afraid of telling her about his engagement, as he knows she would never accept Sam. She also tries to get him to drop Jack, his best friend, as his heart surgeon in favor of an acquaintance of hers who is at the top of the field. As it turns out, she was right on both counts.
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Awake / int_ba5bd7	type	Ignored Expert
Awake / int_ba5bd7	comment	Ignored Expert: Dr. Neyer, a renowned cardiologist and close friend of Lilith's offers to perform Clay's heart transplant, especially since neither he nor Lilith trust Jack, citing his previous, open malpractice lawsuits amongst other things. Clay dismisses him, choosing to stay with Jack out of friendship. Once his ghost uncovers the plot to kill him from the beginning and he rewatches the scene when he declined him as a surgeon, he mournfully apologizes to his mother.
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Awake / int_c660bc15	type	Fan Disservice
Awake / int_c660bc15	comment	Fan Disservice: Hayden Christensen shirtless? Nice. Hayden Christensen shirtless and having his chest sliced into? Not so nice.
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Awake / int_d001c42c	type	Anti-Villain
Awake / int_d001c42c	comment	Anti-Villain: Jack Harper is the only participant in the murder plot who is genuinely regretful about the whole thing and is reluctant to go through with it in the first place. He turns on Sam at the end.
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Awake / int_d5e4c678	type	Adventures in Comaland
Awake / int_d5e4c678	comment	Adventures In Coma Land: While Clayton's doctors perform the surgery and plot his death unaware that he can hear them, Clayton can do nothing but relive his memories that led up to this point, scrutinizing every detail to try to understand what's going on. After the transplant "fails" while he remains hooked to the bypass machine, everything in his dream world grows dimmer and dimmer, until finally fading to pitch black.
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Awake / int_d8a81f59	type	Starts with Their Funeral
Awake / int_d8a81f59	comment	Starts with Their Funeral / How We Got Here: The film opens with Dr. Harper lamenting the fact that while he has lost patients before, Clayton is the only friend he's ever lost on the surgical table. He then ponders whether Clayton was thinking of "her" that day, before the scene switches to Clayton and his fiance Sam together in his apartment several days before the surgery.
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Awake / int_e13156e1	type	Mama Bear
Awake / int_e13156e1	comment	Mama Bear: It is eventually revealed that Lilith murdered her violent husband in order to protect Clay.
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Awake / int_e70127	type	The Mole
Awake / int_e70127	comment	The Mole Larry Lupin, who pretends to be an annoying, incompetent, drunk of a surgeon, but is really an undercover cop. Jack Harper suspects him and wants to end the plot, but Sam talks him into going through with it.
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Awake / int_f6370d13	type	Organ Theft
Awake / int_f6370d13	comment	Organ Theft: Clay and his mother joke about this as a solution to having to wait for his turn on the heart transplant list.
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Awake / int_fb6f9f47	type	"You Used to Be Better" Speech
Awake / int_fb6f9f47	comment	"You Used to Be Better" Speech: Downplayed, but after Dr. Neyer comes in with Lilith's body to transplant her heart into Clay's, he briefly but genuinely says to Jack after sarcastically telling him to leave the operating room, citing how the police were on their way to arrest them all:
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