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Total Recall (1990)
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This science fiction blockbuster from 1990 began its production life as a very different movie than the one that was released. An adaptation of the Philip K. Dick short story "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale," Total Recall was originally conceived of with Richard Dreyfuss starring as a Walter Mitty-like character who experiences a variety of artificially induced fantasies. The movie we know is a mega-budget action epic set on Mars. Arnold Schwarzenegger plays a normal working man who discovers that his entire reality has been invented to conceal a plot of planetary domination. Oscar-winning special effects and violent action...
| Starring: | | Arnold Schwarzenegger
Rachel Ticotin
Sharon Stone
Michael Ironside
Ronny Cox
Roy Brocksmith
Marshall Bell
Michael Champion
Roy Brocksmith
Ray Baker
Rosemary Dunsmore
David Knell
Alexia Robinson
Dean Norris
Debbie Lee Carrington
Lycia Naff
Robert Costanzo
Mark Carlton
Mel Johnson Jr.
Mark Carlton
Michael LaGuardia
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| Directed By: | | Paul Verhoeven |
| Written By: | | Philip K. Dick, Ronald Shusett, Dan O'Bannon, Ronald Shusett, Dan O'Bannon, Gary Goldman, Jon Povill |
| Running Time: | | 113 minutes |
| Box Office Gross: |
| $119,394,840 (US)
$261,299,840 (World) |
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Total Recall Movie Review by Jarrod  (7/16/2007) |
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'Total Recall' might feature Arnold Schwarzenegger's best performance, about the only one where he is not an invincible superhero, but really just an ordinary guy, caught up in an elaborate plot set in a richly textured sci-fi world, inspired, as several others, by the fiction of Philip K Dick.
Douglas Quaid lives a...
(complete Total Recall review by Jarrod)
| Total Recall Movie Review by Zara (4/3/2007) |
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I went to go see this with my dad when I was a kid, a good thing since my dad is a huge Science Fiction novel reader. We talked about the implications of what the movie was proposing before and after, with the subtle hints of the sweat rolling down the side of the man's face. It very well could have meant he was real and...
(complete Total Recall review by Zara)
| Total Recall Movie Review by Lone Wolf (2/18/2007) |
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In 2084 Douglas Quaid (Arnold Schwartzenegger) is a construction worker plagued by dreams of being on Mars with a sexy brunette. He decides to take an imaginary adventure "vacation" to Mars with artificial memories implanted in his brain by the Rekall company.
Doctors at Rekall discover Quaid's mind has already been...
(complete Total Recall review by Lone Wolf)
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