A Scanner Darkly (Blu-ray) R

Everything is not going to be OK
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  • Rated: R
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 40 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region A
  • Released: September 7, 2010
  • Originally Released: 2006
  • Label: Warner Home Video

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User Ratings: 140,030
Rating: B+ -- ...not for everyone. It's a complicated film that requires patience and, most likely, subsequent viewings to appreciate the jigsaw view of control and paranoia. Full Review
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Apr 20, 2011
4 stars out of 4 -- [O]ne of cinema's funniest, most frightening, and ultimately most moving meditations on the chemically altered life.
Uncut
Sep 1, 2006
3.5 stars out of 5 -- [T]he animation is at once startlingly realistic and surreal, conveying the story's heightened atmosphere of paranoia.
Box Office
Jul 1, 2006
Rating: 2/5 -- I got bored with the random diversions into the long-winded conversations of the drug culture. Full Review
7M Pictures
Jan 19, 2014
Mr. Linklater uses the animation technique called rotoscoping to translate Mr. Dick's worldview, mostly to fine expressive effect.
New York Times
Jul 7, 2006
3 stars out of 5 -- Embedded in the visionary headtrip of A SCANNER DARKLY is a hotly political call to arms.
Rolling Stone
Jul 13, 2006
[T]his feature-length hallucination of a flick pulsates with enticing contradictions and wayward logic.
Sight and Sound
Sep 1, 2006

Product Description:

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.

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  • UPC: 883929130931
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