Details

Release year: 2006

Storyline

An undercover cop in a not-too-distant future becomes involved with a dangerous new drug and begins to lose his own identity as a result.

Top credits

Directors

Richard Linklater

Writers

Cast

Keanu Reeves — Bob Arctor
Winona Ryder — Donna Hawthorne
Robert Downey Jr. — James Barris
Rory Cochrane — Charles Freck

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Did you know

• Robert Downey, Jr. wrote most of his lines down on post-it notes and scattered them around the set so he could read off them while filming a scene. The rotoscoping team simply animated over the notes to remove them from the film during post-production.

• According to Writer and Director Richard Linklater, filming was completed in twenty-three days. The animation took eighteen months.

• When Bob Arctor (Keanu Reeves) sits on the stage waiting to give his speech to the Brown Bear Lodge, one of the images his scramble suit displays is Philip K. Dick. This is a clever reference to the novel, in which the scramble suit is said to show the likeness of its creator once in every several million permutations.