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Original title: Scanner Darkly, A Directed by
Richard Linklater Written by
Philip K. Dick, Richard Linklater Cast
Keanu Reeves, Robert Downey Jr., Woody Harrelson, Rory Cochrane, Winona Ryder [more]
Release Date
• USA: Jul 7, 2006
Budget USD 8,000,000
BoxOffice: $5.3M
Official Website:
A Scanner Darkly Website
MPAA Rating
Rated R for drug and sexual content, language and a brief violent image.
Running Time
1 hour, 40 minutes
Country USA
Production Companies
Warner Independent Pictures, Thousand Words, 3 Art Entertainment, 3 Arts Entertainment, Detour Filmproduction, Section Eight Ltd.
Studio Warner Independent
More info on IMDb.com
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• A Scanner Darkly (2006)
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A Scanner Darkly Reviews |
...feels like an experimental film - an effort by the director to stretch the stylistic envelope at the expense of plot and character. A Scanner Darkly is always interesting, but it's not always involving, and it's even less often entertaining. See what I mean: a cult film. [read review] 
--James Berardinelli (ReelViews)
...is likely to divide people, even the more open-minded ones who normally appreciate Linklater's talking heads style of filmmaking. Whether or not it had to be animated may be a question for the ages, but the animation adds another level to Linklater's dialogue-heavy work. Mixing those sensibilities with Dick's out-there ideas makes for an experience that's not easily shaken. [read review] 8/10
--Edward Douglas (ComingSoon.net)
The open-endedness and general slowness of the plot make "A Scanner Darkly" a bit of a difficult pill to swallow, but not an unpleasant one. As difficult and painful as it can be for humanity to face the darkest sides of itself, the fact that it can still ask those questions is cause for hope, and that might be all anyone can ask for. [read review] 10/10
--Joshua Starnes (ComingSoon.net)
I think some people will be tricked by the unusual visual style into thinking the film is more interesting than it is. I say look beyond that at what's actually happening and you'll realize that without the rotoscoping, the movie would be completely undistinguished, competent but only mildly entertaining. [read review] C
--Eric D. Snider (EricDSnider.com)
Unfortunately, beyond the aesthetics and the premise, A Scanner Darkly just stagnates. It lingers for far too long in stretches of no action and self-involved philosophizing that makes all the nifty sci-fi set up moot, and all of the talent and potentialthat went into it got lost somewhere along the way. [read review] 
--Anne Gilbert (FilmCritic.com)
...is a vividly interpreted film, and perhaps Dick fans will find more to play with here than the average viewer. But as a rotund demonstration of visual imagination and social insight, the absence of focus just murders the effort. [read review] C
--Brian Orndorf (FilmJerk.com)
The film may not elevate Dick’s written vision, but it certainly fulfills its obligations (even going so far as to preserve the author’s heartbreaking dedication). And ultimately, that’s a win for (almost) everyone. [read review] 
--Leitha Matz (Tailslate.net)
If you’re looking for a psychedelic view of a psychedelic story (or if you are strung out on Substance D) then “A Scanner Darkly” may appeal to you. I felt strung out like its characters, though, and give it a C+. [read review] C+,B
...the film slows in some places, nearly to a halt. It's frustrating, but wait it out. The whole is worth it; it's a grand and elegant portrait of paranoia and malfeasance set amongst society's seedy underbelly. [read review]
--PAM GRADY (Reel.com)
...isn’t as dark or sinister as its source material, but it comes closer than any other filmed attempts to this point. It may only be a decent movie, but it’s a pretty fine PKD adaptation. [read review] 
--Pete Vonder Haar (FilmThreat.com)
...comes closer than any other movie has but still doesn't quite get there. Once again, the old drug-addled guru -- twenty-four years dead now -- leaves Hollywood far behind. [read review]
--Rob Gonsalves (eFilmCritic.com)
It seems that the point of this movie is to say, drugs are bad. Why then does the movie that's making this point appear to have been made by people on them? [read review] 
--Scott Nash (TheMovieBuffs.com)
... In other words, this is an ambitious drug movie that's much less mind-blowing than it could've been. [read review] 6/10
--Jeffrey Chen (WindowToMovies.com)
Cinematic synapses misfire in this Philip K. Dick adaptation. [read review]
--Duane Byrge (Hollywod Reporter)
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