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A Scanner Darkly

2006 · Movie · 100 min

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Scores

  • Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer68%as of 2021-10-05
  • Rotten Tomatoes average6.6/10as of 2021-10-05
  • Metacritic73/100as of 2024-03-23

What it is

A Scanner Darkly is a 2006 American adult animated science fiction thriller film written and directed by Richard Linklater, based on the 1977 novel by Philip K. Dick. The film tells the story of identity and deception in a near-future dystopia constantly under intrusive high-tech police surveillance in the midst of a drug addiction epidemic.

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Genres
Science fiction / Drama
Original language
English

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