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 alert but immobilized during open heart surgery, he overhears a devious plot to have him killed. Co-Starring Jessica Alba and Terrence Howard. Awake does "for operations what Jaws did for the beach."