Looker

Looker
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Michael Crichton
Written by	Michael Crichton
Produced by	Howard Jeffrey
Starring	Albert Finney James Coburn Susan Dey Leigh Taylor-Young
Cinematography	Paul Lohmann
Edited by	Carl Kress
Music by	Barry De Vorzon
Production company	The Ladd Company
Distributed by	Warner Bros.
Release date	October 30, 1981 (1981-10-30)
Running time	94 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$8–12 million[1][2]
Box office	$3.3 million[3]

Looker is a 1981 American science fiction thriller film^[1][4] written and directed by Michael Crichton, starring Albert Finney, James Coburn, Susan Dey, and Leigh Taylor-Young.^[5] It follows a series of mysterious deaths plaguing female models who have undergone cosmetic surgery from a renowned Los Angeles physician. The film explores media, advertising and television's impact on the public in creating a ridiculous standard of beauty.

Though sparse in visual effects, it is the first commercial film to attempt to use a computer-generated, three-dimensional, solid-looking model of a whole human body. However, as with its predecessors Futureworld, Star Wars, and Alien, this was an example of "CGI representing CGI", and only depicted on CRT screens in the film, rather than being used as a special effect. The model had no skeletal or facial movements and was not a character. Looker was also the first film to create three-dimensional (3D) shading with a computer,^[6] months before the release of the better-known Tron.