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Scientist Peyton Westlake (played by [[Liam Neeson]]) is developing a new type of synthetic skin to aid burn victims. He is continually frustrated with the results because the skin rapidly disintegrates 99 minutes after exposure to light. Despite his devotion to the project, he cannot get past this limitation. His girlfriend, attorney Julie Hastings (played by [[Frances McDormand]]), uncovers a crooked real estate plot by corrupt developer Louis Strack, Jr. (played by [[Colin Friels]]) and mobster Robert G. Durant (played by [[Larry Drake]]). In retaliation, Durant and his minions attack and injure Westlake then blow up his lab. The blast throws Westlake clear of the lab; he survives but is hideously burned. He is brought to a hospital and subjected to a radical treatment in which the [[pain]] centers of his [[brain]] are destroyed. Removing this sensory input gives him increased strength due to [[adrenaline|adrenal]] overload and keeps his injuries from incapacitating him, but it also destabilizes his moods and mental state. He escapes the hospital and sets out to get revenge on Strack and Durant, and to try to re-establish his relationship with Hastings. To hide his scarring and blend into crowds, Westlake rebuilds enough of his equipment to make his synthetic skin, but is unable to overcome the 99-minute window of integrity. Thus, he can only appear as himself (or later as others, whose features he is able to duplicate) in public briefly, and otherwise wears bandages and a [[trenchcoat]] in his identity as "Darkman."

 

==''Darkman II: The Return of Durant''==