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Release year: 1997

Storyline

Two doctors create breast implants, but when success and money come their way, they separate and follow different paths.

Top credits

Directors

Lawrence O'Neil

Writers

John Stockwell

Cast

David Schwimmer — Dr. Kevin Saunders
Chris Cooper — Dr. William Larson
Emily Procter — Laura Pierson
Matt Frewer — Gerald Krzemien

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Did you know

• The movie was filmed in mid-1997, with a planned October release date. However, when the producers discovered that October was Breast Cancer Awareness Month, they changed the release date to December 1997.

• The movie very loosely tracks the history of the real-life breast implant phenomenon, for its radical introduction through its popularity, through the controversial link of its silicone base to various types illnesses and cancers (culminating in the Food and Drug Administration's moratorium on use of silicone in breast implants, leading the industry to use saline implants, instead).

• Star Drug Store has been a Galveston, Texas fixture since 1917. Its exterior, with its distinctive ceramic Coca-Cola sign, is seen in several scenes, and Schwimmer's character uses a pay phone in the back of the soda fountain. It burned in 1998, shortly after the movie was released, and was closed for three years, before re-opening in 2001.