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1986
Directed by Walter Grauman
Synopsis
A strikingly beautiful and wealthy woman is hit by a truck and is all smashed up and nearly killed. At nearly the same time, a very plain looking lower middle class woman simply faints and suffers brain death. The beautiful womans brain is fine, so, doctors merely transplant her brain into plain Jane. Problems ensue when plain Janes husband continues to believe she is still his wife. She has no memory of him, and goes to live with the beautiful womans husband. She doesn't mix well with her new socialite friends and family. Mirrors are emotional battlefields as well.
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Cast
Mare Winningham Jameson Parker Jeffrey DeMunn Jonathan Banks Bert Remsen Mason Adams James Handy Philip Baker Hall Tracy Brooks Swope Judith Ledford Ford Rainey Joel Colodner Bruce French Clare Torao Patricia Smith John Hammil George Cheung Robert Lesser Ben Ryan Ganger Michael Mitz Clare Wren David Selburg Steve Pershing Lance Rosen Ken Hill Peter MacLean William Harlow Julian Christopher Brendon Boone Show All…
DirectorDirector
Walter Grauman
ProducersProducers
Andrew J. Fenady Walter Grauman James Steven Sadwith Philip Barry Jr.
WriterWriter
James Steven Sadwith
Original WriterOriginal Writer
Barbara S. Harris
CastingCasting
Karen Hendel
EditorsEditors
Sidney Katz Virginia Katz
CinematographyCinematography
Thomas Del Ruth
Production DesignProduction Design
Al Rohm
Set DecorationSet Decoration
Norman Rockett
ComposerComposer
Robert Drasnin
Studios
CBS Broadcast International CBS Entertainment Productions
Country
USA
Language
English
Alternative Titles
Keserű ébredés, Коя е Джулия?, Кто есть Джулия?, ¿Quién es Julia?
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TV Movie Drama Science Fiction
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26 Oct 1986
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Review by Hatercles
Putting brains into other people’s bodies has long been a fav pastime for movie doctors, but the TV movie Who is Julia? takes a different track to most. Rather than horror, this is a drama, focusing on the title character’s (and the loved ones of both women) adjustment to being in a different body (Jonathan Banks of Breaking Bad plays the husband of the body donor, and it turns out he’s one of those people who got better looking as he got older as he’s kinda schluby-looking here.)
I watched this on YouTube, with the upload containing the commercial breaks from it’s original airing. I’ve always felt Criterion should include the original commercials when they do tv stuff. News items were also neat; apparently London was trying to take over from Wall Street; glad we beat that back.
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Review by Luke ★★★★
Excellent TV movie that tackles an idea that, frankly, terrifies me: waking up in someone else's body... permanently. It's not played as sci-fi, just an aspirational medical marvel given the dramatic treatment -- and Who is Julia?, for the most part, excels. Its biggest fault is not seeming to know which of the manifold possible directions to take, but the avenues it explores are fascinating and give Mare Winningham a chance to do some real heavy lifting.
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Review by Jeremiah Dollins ★★★
This CBS Sunday Movie from 1986 is a surprising film with a stellar cast that includes Mare Winningham, Jeffrey DeMunn, Jonathan Banks, and Phillip Baker Hall. A blonde bombshell saves a child’s life and gets hit by a car while another woman has a brain aneurysm at the same time. The docs conduct a brain transplant to save the bombshell, Julia’s, life, but did she want to be saved?
This is definitely movie of the week fodder, and the premise is definitely soap opera trash, but in the hands of these sensitive performers, Who Is Julia? turns out to be a thoughtful exploration of identity and self-actualization. I was shocked to find a scene in which the characters have a…
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Review by Idpreferyoudead ★★½
I first saw this film when I was 13, back around 1990 and was obsessed with it. Looking back, it's amazing my mum never questioned why I wanted to watch it so often. I rewatched it last year when I found it on YouTube and it's an intense story about two women who die and a surgeon decides he wants to give a brain transplant a go. Julia, a model, is hit by a car but her brain is fine. Mary, a wife and mother, suddenly dies from a brain aneurysm. The surgery is a success but the film focusses on Julia's battle with her body image now that she's "plain" and how both women's husbands try to deal with the situation. I couldn't imagine how hard it would be to know your wife is dead but her body is still walking around. Despite how old the film is it's still a captivating watch and definitely gets you thinking.
