Total Recall

Total Recall

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 propel the twisting plot, in which Arnold manipulates his manipulators in a world of dazzling high technology. Director Paul Verhoeven (Robocop) indulges his usual penchant for gratuitous bloodshed, but the movie has enough cleverness to rise above its excesses. --Jeff Shannon

Production: TriStar Pictures
  Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 8 wins & 14 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.5
Metacritic:
57
Rotten Tomatoes:
82%
R
Year:
1990
113
$119,000,000
11,973 Views
They stole his mind. Now he wants it back. Get ready for the ride of your life.
Your mind is the center of your life. It is everything you hear, everything you see, everything you feel... It is everything you ARE. You wouldn't know if you lost your mind... Would you know if someone STOLE it?
What if you discovered somebody stole your mind... and there was only one way to get it back?
In this world, they can steal your mind, erase your memory, and give you another identity. But the most dangerous thing that can happen to you is... TOTAL RECALL.
He'll show you a side of Mars that no one on Earth has ever seen before... He should be so lucky.

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