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A Scanner Darkly
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Genre: Animation Drama Mystery Sci-Fi Thriller
Runtime: 100 min
Cast of Characters| Rory Cochrane | ... | Charles Freck | |
| Robert Downey Jr. | ... | James Barris | |
| Mitch Baker | ... | Brown Bear Lodge Host | |
| Keanu Reeves | ... | Bob Arctor | |
| Sean Allen | ... | Additional Fred Scramble Suit Voice (voice) | |
| Cliff Haby | ... | Voice from Headquarters (voice) | |
| Steven Chester Prince | ... | Cop | |
| Winona Ryder | ... | Donna Hawthorne | |
| Natasha Valdez | ... | Waitress | |
| Mark Turner | ... | Additional Hank Scramble Suit Voice (voice) | |
| Woody Harrelson | ... | Ernie Luckman | |
| Chamblee Ferguson | ... | Medical Deputy #2 | |
| Angela Rawna | ... | Medical Deputy #1 | |
| Eliza Stevens | ... | Arctor's Daughter #1 | |
| Sarah Menchaca | ... | Arctor's Daughter #2 |
Plot Outline: An undercover cop in a not-too-distant future becomes involved with a dangerous new drug and begins to lose his own identity as a result. The L.A. of a not-too-distant future suffers a surge of drug abuse involving a new ultra-addictive and eventually brain-damaging substance simply named "D". Bob Arctor is an undercover narc leading a double life, dutifully reporting to his superiors while effectively having abandoned whatever normal existence he had for a "D" user/dealer career. But this schizophrenic situation and the drug-induced memory and concentration lapses put Bob under mounting stress.
Runtime: 100 min
Language: English
Color: Color
Aspect Ratio: 1.85 : 1 Widescreen Blu-ray
Sound Mix: SDDS Dolby Digital DTS
Certification: New Zealand:R13 Ireland:16 Finland:K-15 Singapore:M18 Argentina:16 UK:15 Australia:M USA:R Italy:T
Quotes: Medical Deputy #2 : Damage has taken place to the normally dominant left hemisphere, and the right hemisphere is attempting to compensate. Fred : The two hemisphere in my brain... are competing? Medical Deputy #2, Medical Deputy #1: [ in unison] Yes. more
Awards: 2 wins & 3 nominations
Comments:
Hollywood has tried so many times to capture the feel
of Philip K. Dick terms of his style and writing. Films like Total Recall, Paycheck, Minority Report, all were
playing to the lowest common denominator and really lost a lot of the feel that Dick conveys in his writing.
Blade Runner came close, but it still missed the essential darkness that Dick brings to each and every one of his
works. Enter "A Scanner Darkly", aside from the Interpolative Rotoscoping that the film maker used to put the
graphical images of this movie together and give it an amazing visual feel all its own, the vision and imagery
conveyed by the film are as true to Dick's original as any movie has come. I left the theater feeling
overwhelmed, touched, and changed, much the same way as when I'd finished the book. This is rare, and it is
decidedly a beautiful thing.
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