Details

Release year: 1990

Storyline

When a man goes in to have virtual vacation memories of the planet Mars implanted in his mind, an unexpected and harrowing series of events forces him to go to the planet for real - or is he?

Top credits

Directors

Paul Verhoeven

Writers

Cast

Arnold Schwarzenegger — Quaid
Sharon Stone — Lori
Michael Ironside — Richter
Rachel Ticotin — Melina

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Awards

0 wins & 2 nominations

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Did you know

• When Ronald Shusett and Dan O'Bannon first started working on the screenplay for this movie back in the 1970s, they realized that the movie would probably be too expensive and difficult to make by the standards of special effects and budget at the time. They delayed working on the story and instead worked on an idea O'Bannon had about a space monster terrorizing a spaceship crew. This became Alien (1979).

• After seeing Sharon Stone's performance as Lori in this movie, director Paul Verhoeven would cast her in Basic Instinct (1992) due to her ability to play a character that could change from a timid charming sweetheart to a diabolical person and back again at a moment's notice. He also stated that this is the way Stone is in real life.

• Arnold Schwarzenegger noticed that Michael Ironside was constantly on the phone between takes. When he broached the subject with Ironside, he was told that he was phoning his sister and that she was suffering from cancer. Schwarzenegger immediately brought Ironside to his trailer, and they had an hour-long, three-way conversation with Ironside's sister about what exercises she should do and what kinds of foods she should be eating. Neither Ironside nor his sister ever forgot Schwarzenegger's kindness.