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A Scanner Darkly

Keanu Reeves and Robert Downey Jr.
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Overview

Richard Linklater's adaptation of Philip K. Dick's classic novel is a challenging, mind-bending experience that cautions about the dangers of excessive drug use as well as the government's capacity to abuse and manipulate power. Using the same interpolated rotoscoping technique that Linklater employed in 2001's WAKING LIFE, the film is an animated, trippy descent into one man's unraveling mind. Set in the not-too-distant future where a new drug, substance D, has created an epidemic, A SCANNER DARKLY charts the mental unraveling of Bob Arctor (Keanu Reeves). Arctor is an undercover cop who has been assigned to track a group of individuals who include the druggily verbose Barris (Robert Downey Jr.), the hyper-intense Luckman (Woody Harrelson), the ultra-paranoid Freck (Rory Cochrane), and the beautiful Donna (Winona Ryder). As the film unfolds and Arctor finds himself abusing substance D in order to maintain his façade, his mind begins to spin out of control, to the point where he doesn't know what's real and what isn't. Eventually, the truth comes out, leaving Arctor even more numbed. Linklater's surprisingly faithful adaptation of Dick's novel blends humor, drama, and Bob Sabiston's striking animation to deliver a thought-provoking film that will leave viewers as dazed as the film's protagonist.

Awards:

Main Cast & Crew:
Richard Linklater - Director
Keanu Reeves
Robert Downey Jr.
Woody Harrelson
Winona Ryder
Rory Cochrane
Chamblee Ferguson
Angela Rawna
Mitch Baker
Lisa Marie Newmyer
Dameon Clarke

Details

    DVD Format
  • Format: DVD (AC-3, Dolby, Widescreen)
  • Run Time: 100
  • Color Format: Color
  • UPC: 012569594173
  • Genre: ACTION / ADVENTURE
  • Rating: R (MPAA) (for drug and sexual content, language and a brief violent image.)
  • Release Date: December 2006

Movie Reviews

Reviews:
4 stars out of 4 -- "One doesn't leave the movie with a mind blown by visual bedazzlement but with a soul shattered by the profound sense of tragedy Linklater and company so beautifully put across." - 07/01/2006 Premiere, p.72


3 stars out of 5 -- "Embedded in the visionary headtrip of A SCANNER DARKLY is a hotly political call to arms." - 07/13/2006 Rolling Stone, p.125


3.5 stars out of 5 -- "[T]he animation is at once startlingly realistic and surreal, conveying the story's heightened atmosphere of paranoia." - 07/01/2006 Box Office, p.60


"Mr. Linklater uses the animation technique called rotoscoping to translate Mr. Dick's worldview, mostly to fine expressive effect." - 07/07/2006 New York Times, p.E10


4 stars out of 5 -- "Linklater's skewed sensibilities interlock lovingly with Dick's paranoid sci-fry..." - 09/01/2006 Total Film, p.39


"[T]his feature-length hallucination of a flick pulsates with enticing contradictions and wayward logic." - 09/01/2006 Sight and Sound, p.68


4 stars out of 4 -- "[O]ne of cinema's funniest, most frightening, and ultimately most moving meditations on the chemically altered life." - 09/01/2006 Uncut, p.116


Ranked #12 in Film Comment's "20 Best Films Of 2006." - 01/01/2007 Film Comment, p.36


4 stars out of 5 -- "Among the finest Philip K. Dick-derived films, this finds Richard Linklater assembling a fistful of mainstream rebel icons..." - 06/01/2010 Empire

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