Official Movie Website Theatrical Release 07/14/06 Home Video Not Available MPAA Rating Rated R for drug and sexual content, language and a brief violent image Running Time 1 hour 40 minutes Genre Sci-Fi, Action, Suspense Director/Writer Richard Linklater Cast Keanu Reeves, Winona Ryder, Robert Downey Jr., Woody Harrelson, Rory Cochran Studio Warner Independent Films |
A SCANNER DARKLY
SYNOPSIS
America’s endless and futile war on drugs has
become one and the same with its war on terror.
Reluctant undercover cop Bob Arctor (Keanu
Reeves) follows orders to start spying on his
friends, Jim Barris, Ernie Luckman, Donna
Hawthorne and Charles Freck. When he is directed
to step up the surveillance on himself, he is
launched on a paranoid journey into the absurd,
where identities and loyalties are impossible to
decode.
Based on legendary science-fiction author Philip K.
Dick’s own experiences, “A Scanner Darkly” tells
the darkly comedic, caustic, but deeply tragic tale of
drug use in the modern world. The film plays like a
graphic novel come to life with live-action
photography overlaid with an advanced animation
process - a method known as interpolated
rotoscoping, first employed in writer/director
Richard Linklater’s 2001 film "Waking Life" - to
create a haunting version of America, seven years
from now.
--© Warner Independent Films
America’s endless and futile war on drugs has
become one and the same with its war on terror.
Reluctant undercover cop Bob Arctor (Keanu
Reeves) follows orders to start spying on his
friends, Jim Barris, Ernie Luckman, Donna
Hawthorne and Charles Freck. When he is directed
to step up the surveillance on himself, he is
launched on a paranoid journey into the absurd,
where identities and loyalties are impossible to
decode.
Based on legendary science-fiction author Philip K.
Dick’s own experiences, “A Scanner Darkly” tells
the darkly comedic, caustic, but deeply tragic tale of
drug use in the modern world. The film plays like a
graphic novel come to life with live-action
photography overlaid with an advanced animation
process - a method known as interpolated
rotoscoping, first employed in writer/director
Richard Linklater’s 2001 film "Waking Life" - to
create a haunting version of America, seven years
from now.
--© Warner Independent Films
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