A certain genre : virtual Realities

A Scanner Darkly

Richard Linklater

2006
United States
1h40
Fiction
Col.
VOSTFR

In a totalitarian society in a near future, the undercover detective Bob Archor is working with a small time group of drug users trying to reach the big distributors of a brain-damaging drug called Substance D. His assignment is promoted by the recovery center New Path Corporation, and when Bob begins to lose his own identity and have schizophrenic behavior, he is submitted to tests to check his mental conditions.

Freely adapted from the novel by Plilip K. Dick and made with rotoscoping (an animation technique which trace over motion picture footage).

Cast
Keanu Reeves, Robert Downey Jr., Woody Harrelson, Winona Ryder
Screenplay
Richard Linklater, based on the novel by Philip K.Dick
Photography
Shane F. Kelly
Sound
Ethan Andrus
Music
Graham Reynolds
Art direction
Bruce Curtis
Editing
Sandra Adair
Production
Warner Independent Pictures, Thousand Words, Section Eight, Detour Filmproduction, 3 Arts Entertainment

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