A Scanner Darkly -
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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.
Movie information
| Release Date (USA): | 2006-07-07 |
| Rating (USA): | R |
| Release Date (UK): | 2006-08-18 |
| Rating (UK) : | NA |
| Director: | Richard Linklater |
| Producer: | Tommy Pallotta |
| Studio: | Warner Independent Pictures |
| Writer/s: | Richard Linklater (screenplay) and Philip K. Dick (novel) |
Cast
| Mitch Baker | Brown Bear Lodge Host |
| Melody Chase | Arctor's Wife |
| Dameon Clarke | Mike |
| Rory Cochrane | Freck |
| Jack Cruz | Police Officer |
| Jason Douglas | New Path Farm Manager |
| Robert Downey Jr. | Barris |
| Woody Harrelson | Luckman |
| Heather Kafka | New Path Girl |
| Marco Perella | Donald |
| Keeanu Reeves |
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