D.O.A.

D.O.A is the story of a washed up English College Professor, Dexter Cornell (Dennis Quaid) who finds the people around him who are close to him have been murdered. It all began with Nick Lang (Robert Knepper) who Dexter passed along a manuscript to read. Nick ends up dead only to have Nick traced back to an affair with his wife. One by one a new murder leads back to Dexter himself. However now, Dexter has become the prime suspect and also prime victim. Someone has just slipped something deadly into Dexter’s drink and poisoned him. Now Dexter has only 24 hours to find out who and how to stop it. Along the way, Dexter takes up a partnership with one of his students, Sydney Fuller (Meg Ryan) who helps him deal with his search in more ways than one.