History Film / Awake2007

''Awake'' is a medical thriller by director Joby Harold, starring HaydenChristensen, Creator/JessicaAlba, and Terrence Howard. The film was released in 2007 by The Weinstein Company.

* DomesticAbuser: [[spoiler:Clay's father again.]]

* [[ChekhovsGun 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 [[spoiler: 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]].

* PlayingAgainstType: [[spoiler: Creator/JessicaAlba is an evil, murderous gold-digger.]]

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Hayden Christensen replaced Jared Leto in the role of Clay.

* TheMole [[spoiler: Larry, 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 growing through with it.]]

* PlayingAgainstType: [[spoiler: JessicaAlba is an evil, murderous gold-digger.]]

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Hayden Christensen replaced Jared Leto in the role of Clay.

[[NamesTheSame Not to be confused with]] the TV series ''Series/Awake''.

* ItGotWorse: Clay's realisation that he's still conscious is horrifying enough. Then he learns that the surgeons are planning to murder him.

''Awake'' is a medical thriller by director Joby Harold, starring HaydenChristensen, JessicaAlba, and Terrence Howard. The film was released in 2007 by The Weinstein Company.

* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler:When the murder plot is foiled, Sam's façade and demeanour rapidly deteriorate.]]

* AndIMustScream: 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.

* StartsWithTheirFuneral / HowWeGotHere: 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.

* ShirtlessScene: Clay has a few.

--> '''Lillith''': "I'm serious this time. Let's go to China, try out luck on the black market."

--> '''Lillith''': "Sounds good to me. Drag 'em in and cut 'em open! Hey, whatever it takes, right?"

* ForegoneConclusion: [[Spoiler:Subverted. The film opens with Jack talking about how Clay died during the surgery, so viewers expect the film to have a DownerEnding. As it turns out, Clay survives thanks to his mother.]]

* MyBelovedSmother: Clayton's mother Lillith'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. [[spoiler: As it turns out, she was right on both counts.]]

* StartsWithTheirFuneral: 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.

''Awake'' is a medical thriller by director Joby Harold, starring Hayden Christensen, JessicaAlba, and Terrence Howard. The film was released in 2007 by The Weinstein Company.

In one fateful evening, his fortune seems to turn. After finally breaking the news to his none-to-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.

* AdventuresInComaLand: While Clatyon's doctors 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.

* HighOctaneNightmareFuel: Would ''you'' want to watch this movie the night before any kind of surgery? Even a root canal?
* MeaningfulName: One member of Clatyon's surgical team is a young British woman named Penny '''Carver'''.

* MeaningfulName: One member of Clatyon's surgical team is a young British woman named Penny '''Carver'''.
* UnfortunateImplications: A black doctor is too incompetent to intentionally kill a patient

* UnfortunateImplications: A black doctor is to in-competent to intentionally kill a patient

* MeaningfulName: One member of Clatyon's surgical team is a young British woman named Penny '''Carver'''.