Sexy and suspenseful, Awake turns the disturbingly real phenomenon of ""anesthetic awareness" - in which surgery patients, though completely paralyzed, are conscious of everything they are experiencing, including the pain - into a ""completely absorbing" thriller (Roger Ebert). When failed anesthesia leaves a rich young tycoon (Hayden Christensen, Star Wars) alert but immobilized during open-heart surgery, he overhears a devious plot to have him killed. Costarring Jessica Alba (Sin City) and Academy Award nominee Terrence Howard (Crash), Awake does ""for operations what Jaws did for the beach" (Frank Scheck, Hollywood Reporter).