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Face Lift

(2006)
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MAKE ME BEAUTIFUL... MAKE ME BEAUTIFUL...

Ella Fallon made this secret wish every night. She and her lover Ed Leeming had been born brilliant but ugly and disfigured. Their lives were made a misery at California's most exclusive college by Scott Stockton, leader of 'the beautiful elite'; handsome, hedonistic and tormenter-in-chief who stands to inherit an industrial multinational. If it wasn't for his disfigurement, Ed would bear a truly remarkable, almost twin-like resemblance to Scott, but no one ever notices.

Ed Leeming at last fights back but Stockton viciously gets his revenge and Ed ends up in a catatonic coma.

Ella is distraught, runs from the college and goes on the road then wins a $2m jackpot in Las Vegas. Enter Thomas Startz, genius high-tech body remodeller who transforms Ella into an erotic centerfold beauty. Still in love with Ed, but despairing of his recovery, she makes him one last gift before giving up on him. She has Thomas Startz transform him while he is in a coma. The surgery unlocks Ed's mind but he wakes up as a mirror image of Scott Stockton - the man he hates.

That's when the big idea dawns, a high risk game with impossible odds. Ed and Ella plot to take over Scott Stockton's life and business empire with Ed masquerading as Scott. But, Ed's sojourn on the 'dark side' has left his mark. With a slim hold on his sanity, he becomes a killer. And when the real Scott Stockton falls insanely in love with the new Ella, can she really tell who is who?

Genre: Mystery

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