A Scanner Darkly
Richard Linklater / US, 2006 / 100 min.
Los Angeles 2013: undercover cop ‘Fred’ (Keanu Reeves) is living with a group of drug addicted misfits in order to track down the source of the paranoia inducing Substance D.. In the meantime, he has become an addict himself. Remarkable adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s eponymous dystopian novel by Richard Linklater.
SF author Philip K. Dick who died in 1982, situated his 1977 novel about a police state that terrorises its inhabitants with high-tech surveillance, in ‘the near future’.
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Director
Richard Linklater
Production year
2006
Country
US
Original title
A Scanner Darkly
Length
100 min.
Language
English
Subtitles
NONE
Format
DCP
Part of
Underground
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