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TOTAL RECALL
U.S., 1990
Directed by Paul Verhoeven
Based on Philip K. Dick’s We Can Remember It for You Wholesale
With Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rachel Ticotin, Sharon Stone
WINNER, Academy Awards® – Best Visual Effects, 1991
Approx. 113 min. DCP.
Working stiff Arnold Schwarzenegger’s dreams of a vacation on Mars come true courtesy of virtual memory implant specialists “Rekall” — and what could possibly go wrong?
Presented with support from the Ada Katz Fund for Literature in Film
Reviews
“It's one of the most perfect team-ups in blockbuster history: Big Arnie, the Teutonic Titan with the wry edge; Paul Verhoeven, the satirical powerhouse with the fascism fascination; and Philip K. Dick, the schizophrenic sci-fi genius. TOTAL RECALL is slick, sly and subversive.”
– Tom Huddleston, Time Out
“Melding the ever-more-workable Schwarzenegger mystique with a better-than-average science-fiction premise, the director Paul Verhoeven has come up with a vigorous, superviolent interplanetary thriller that packs in wallops with metronomic regularity.”
– Janet Maslin, The New York Times