'Seconds'

This is a spectacular film co-starring Rock Hudson, who is the incarnation of the middle-aged John Randolph, who decides to escape his hum-drum married/suburban/crappy job life for a ... do-over.

Not unlike Vanilla Sky (or the Spanish Open Your Eyes), he partners with some organization or company that that provides plastic surgery, a new home, career and life story. All the while, Arthur Hamilton remains uncomfortable in his new skin, home sick or possibly morally repulsed by being a living, breathing lie.

He partakes in an Bacchus-style orgy, hooks up with a hot neighbor and "becomes" and artist living on the beach and he can't handle his lie (or his liquor).

Randolph is best known, maybe, as Clark's grandfather in National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (among more distinguished roles). He's virtually unrecognizable at 51 in Seconds. He had a round face and wider belt line. Although, if you looked close enough, you see it.

Interestingly, Seconds was Randolph's return to the big screen after being blacklisted. He had induced the Fifth Amendment while answering questions from HUAC and was a member of a Soviet-American organization (Randolph was a Russian Jew) that was an offshoot of a radical group from the 1930s. He didn't work from 1951-60 and didn't do a film until 1966.