# D.O.A. (1988)

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**Runtime**: 96 min
**Genres**: Mystery, Thriller
**Directed by**: Annabel Jankel, Rocky Morton
**Written by**: Charles Edward Pogue, Russell Rouse, Clarence Greene
**Starring**: Dennis Quaid, Meg Ryan, Charlotte Rampling, Daniel Stern, Jane Kaczmarek, Christopher Neame

> *Someone poisoned Dexter Cornell. He's got to find out who. He's got to find out why. He's got to find out now. In 24 hours, he'll be Dead On Arrival.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

A San Francisco autumn. A mugshot pinned to the wall of a dead man who once stood in the same lecture hall.

A professor wakes to a police summons and a syllabus of corpses—friend, rival, then his own name scrawled inside the file. The clock on the classroom wall ticks louder than the blood on his hallway carpet.

Looks like the next lesson plan is a body count and a single take that never leaves the building.

**Mood tags**: neon-soaked, paranoid, raw

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