Total Recall
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Arnold Schwarzenegger
Rachel Ticotin
Sharon Stone
Ronny Cox
Michael Ironside
Marshall Bell
The story [by Ronald Shusett, Dan O'Bannon and John Povill] is actually a good one, taking off from Phillip K. Dick's celebrated sci-fi tale We Can Remember It for You Wholesale.
Arnold Schwarzenegger's character, a working stiff in the year 2084, keeps having these strange nightmares about living on Mars, and it transpires that he once worked in the colony as an intelligence agent before rebelling against dictator Ronny Cox. Schwarzenegger had most, but not quite all, of his bad memories erased and was sent to Earth to work on a construction crew, with a sexy but treacherous wife (Sharon Stone).
A visit to a mind-altering travel agency named Rekall Inc. alerts Schwarzenegger to the truth, setting him off on a rampage through Earth and Mars with the help of equally tough female sidekick Rachel Ticotin.
The fierce and unrelenting pace, accompanied by a tongue-in-cheek strain of humor in the roughhouse screenplay, keeps the film moving like a juggernaut.
1990: Special Achievement Award (visual effects).
Nomination: Best Sound
(Color) Available on VHS, DVD. Extract of a review from 1990. Running time: 113 MIN.
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