A wealthy young man undergoing heart transplant surgery discovers that the surgical team intend to murder him.
While undergoing open heart surgery, a man's failed anesthetic leaves him completely alert, but paralyzed and unable to tell his doctors—Anonymous
Clay Beresford is wealthy, young and in love. He also needs a new heart. After a spur-of-the-moment wedding to his fiancee, Sam, he undergoes heart transplant, with the chief surgeon his friend, Dr Jack Harper. However, the anesthetic has a strange effect on him, paralyzing him but not putting him to sleep. The surgical team are not aware of this and continue with the operation. They also reveal that they intend to murder him.—grantss
In "Awake," a psychological thriller that tells the story of a man undergoing heart surgery while experiencing a phenomenon called "anesthetic awareness," which leaves him awake but paralyzed throughout the operation. As various obstacles present themselves, his wife must make life-altering decisions while wrestling with her own personal drama.—Anonymous
The story focuses on a man who suffers "Anesthetic Awareness" (An occurrence where during surgery where not enough anesthetic medication for the patient's body weight), and finds himself awake and aware, but paralyzed, during heart surgery. His wife must wrestle with her own demons as a drama unfolds around them—Anonymous
Capital-investment firm chief Clay Beresford (Hayden Christensen) is in love with Sam (Jessica Alba) but can't tell his mother Lilith Beresford (Lena Olin). Sam is his mother's personal assistant. Clay suffers from a heart condition & transplant will be carried out by Dr. Jack Harper (Terrence Howard) who had previously saved Clay's life and is now his good friend.His mother and her famous surgeon boyfriend try to dissuade him from going through the operation with a team of surgeons that have so many malpractice suits pending. Clay doesn't like that & tells his mum about Sam. Lilith disapproves of Sam as a match for Clay.
Clays gets married to Sam privately by Dr Harper. As the surgery approaches, Lilith again begs Clay to reconsider his surgery at the hands of Jack, but Clay trusts Jack & goes ahead. During surgery Clay encounters "anesthetic awareness", completely paralyzed, but able to hear the doctors, and feel pain. Clay has an out-of-body experience and uncovers a murder plot against him.
He finds that Dr. Harper, one other surgeon and a nurse will inject his transplanted heart with a chemical that will cause it to be rejected. Dr. Harper has doubts when Sam comes in. She is the main person in the conspiracy.The doctors want Clay to die because now that him and Sam are married, his millions will go to her, and in turn, pay for all the hospital's malpractice suits (later we find out that Sam used to be a nurse there). She proceeds to encourage Harper to go through with the plan and inject the transplanted heart. Clay is a rare blood type (O-) & they won't find a replacement in time.
As the surgery goes on, Sam tries to befriend Clay's mother Lilith. One of the other doctors hits on Sam suggesting he has seen her before. Clay's mother is suspicious & finds that Sam was a nurse at the hospital under Harper. Clay, during his out of body experience, is dejected and accepts his fate.
Clay's mother Lilith takes an overdose of some of her son's medicine, and calls her boyfriend, the prestigious surgeon, and tells him to come save her son. Her surgeon boyfriend returns to evict Dr. Harper, and, upon seeing Lilith's death, realized that she overdosed so that he could save her son (they had the same rare blood type). He then transplants the mother's heart into the son. Dr. Harper and his associates are arrested.
As the transplant is complete Clay refuses to leave "limbo" since he has nothing left in the outside world after the death of his mother. His mother then proceeds to remind Clay that limbo with his mother and an afterlife with his father may not be that ideal. She reminds him that his father was an addict who was abusive to his son. During one such quarrel she had accidentally murdered her own husband as he was about to harm a young Clay.Dr. Harper continues to narrate the story, noting that Clay eventually had his revenge. Clay then "wakes up", or "becomes movement mobile", while Dr. Harper's words close the movie with "He is awake".
