Threshold (1981 film)

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{{Infobox film

| name = Threshold

| image = Threshold film cover.jpg

| caption =

| director = Richard Pearce

| producer = {{ubl|Jon Slan|Michael Burns}}

| writer = James Salter

| narrator =

| starring = {{ubl|Donald Sutherland|Jeff Goldblum|Sharon Acker|Mare Winningham}}

| music = {{ubl|Maribeth Solomon|Micky Erbe}}

| cinematography = Michel Brault

| editing = {{ubl|Susan Martin|Bill Yahraus}}

| distributor = Pan-Canadian Film Distributors{{cite web|title=Threshold|website=Library and Archives Canada|date=12 May 2015 |access-date=8 February 2022|url=https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/canadian-feature-film-database/Pages/item.aspx?IdNumber=957&DotsIdNumber=}}

| released = {{Film date|1981}}

| runtime = 97 minutes

| country = Canada

| language = English

| budget =

| gross =

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Threshold is a 1981 Canadian drama/science fiction film directed by Richard Pearce, and starring Donald Sutherland and Jeff Goldblum. It was nominated for ten Genie Awards in 1983 and won two of them.{{Cite web | url=https://acctmembership.secure.force.com/database/Media?id=a0k0H00000fljkwQAA | title=Canadian Screen Awards}}{{Better source needed | date=October 2024 | reason=page is a placeholder without any useful info}} Sutherland also won best actor at the 1982 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival for his performance.{{Cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083197/awards|title = Threshold - IMDb|website = IMDb}} Threshold was filmed on location at the then newly constructed Ottawa General Hospital.

Plot

Respected cardiac surgeon Dr. Thomas Vrain performs a risky operation to provide a patient with the first artificial heart ever implanted in a human subject.

He and his colleague, research scientist Dr. Aldo Gehring, consider the risks and weigh the odds as time runs out for Carol Severance, the patient. Severance will die unless the experimental surgery is done quickly and succeeds.

Cast

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