Threshold (1983)

Donald Sutherland, John Marley, Sharon Acker, Mare Winningham, Jeff Goldblum ... see more  , Michael Lerner , Allan F. Nicholls , Paul Hecht , Mavor Moore , Ken James , Stuart Gillard , Lally Cadeau , James Douglas , Barbara Gordon , Robert Joy , John Welsh , Michael C. Gwynne , Harvey Chao , Barry Flatman , Robert Goodier , Bob Hannah , Jack Messinger , Jessica Steen , Kate Trotter , Murray Westgate , Richard Blackburn , Maureen McRae , James Loxley , Harry Gulkin , Deborah Turnbull , Bob Warner , Doug Sutherland , Sharon Ackerman

Donald Sutherland plays a brilliant surgeon who becomes a media celebrity after performing an artificial-heart transplant. Jeff Goldblum, inventor of the ersatz heart, likewise basks in the glow of su... read more dden fame. The only person to have reservations about the procedure is heart recipient Mare Winningham, who becomes depressed over the knowledge that she's not altogether human. Several ethical questions are raised and left unresolved; the film assumes that the audience is intelligent and perceptive enough to draw its own conclusions. Released in Canada in 1981, Threshold was not offered an American distribution until after the Barney Clark heart transplant of 1983. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi