Camera : Brendan Galvin
Running : 117 minutes
Country : United States
Self/less was both a critical and commercial failure. The story centres around the business tycoon and billionaire Damian Hayes (Ben Kingsley). He is diagnosed with terminal cancer. Now on his deathbed, he finds a business card directing him to a man named Professor Albright, who informs him about a radical medical procedure called 'shedding', in which one's consciousness is transferred to an artificially grown healthy body.
Damian decides to undergo the procedure and engineers his own public death. Albright transfers him into a new body and prescribes medication to alleviate vivid hallucinations which he claims are side effects of the procedure. Damian starts a new life in New Orleans under the assumed name of Edward Hale and quickly befriends his neighbor Anton.
However, when he forgets to take his medicine, he subsequently suffers hallucinations of a woman and child. In St. Louis, he encounters the woman, Madeline, who identifies him as her apparently deceased husband Mark. Edward learns, much to his horror, that the body he is inhabiting belonged to another man who sold himself to Albright in order to gain the money he needed to cure their sick daughter.
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