Suture

Suture is a 1993 American thriller film directed by Scott McGehee and David Siegel and starring Dennis Haysbert and Mel Harris. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival. Plot After murdering his father, wealthy Vincent Towers decides to fake his own death. He plants a car bomb in an attempt to kill a nearly identical half-brother, Clay Arlington, after persuading Arlington to switch identities with him. Arlington survives, but requires facial reconstruction and also has lost most of his memory. Dr. Renee Descartes is there during his recovery. Towers resurfaces and tries once more to eliminate him, but is killed himself. Arlington makes a decision to make his new identity a permanent one. Cast Dennis Haysbert as Clay Arlington Mel Harris as Dr. Renee Descartes Sab Shimono as Dr. Max Shinoda Dina Merrill as Alice Jameson Michael Harris as Vincent Towers David Graf as Lt. Weismann Fran Ryan as Mrs. Lucerne John Ingle as Sidney Callahan Sanford Gibbons as Dr. Fuller (as Sandy Gibbons) Mark DeMichele as Detective Joe Sandra Ellis Lafferty as Nurse Stevens (as Sandra Lafferty) Capri Darling as Soprano Carol Kiernan as Ticket Agent Laura Groppe as Sportswoman Mel Coleman as Sportsman