Brainstorm

Scientists Lillian (Louise Fletcher) and Michael (Christopher Walken) use his estranged wife, their designer, Karen (Natalie Wood) as a subject in their memory-recording, semi-virtual reality device experiment, a malfunction revealing an event from their troubled marriage, in Brainstorm, 1983.

Producer-director Douglas Trumbull’s clever opening, Louise Fletcher the head scientist, Christopher Walken her colleague and subject, along with Jordan Christopher as Gordy, Joe Dorsey as Hal, trying out what we’d today probably call Virtual Reality, in Brainstorm, 1983, also starring Natalie Wood.

Scientist Michael (Christopher Walken) trying to calm Lillian (Louise Fletcher), going to see their boss Alex (Cliff Robertson), who’s also bringing Michael’s estranged wife, designer Karen (Natalie Wood), on board, with excellent technical detail about semi-conductors, in director Doug Trumbull’s Brainstorm, 1983.

A scientist battles the military for control of a machine that records sensory experiences-including death in Brainstorm (1983).