TOTAL RECALL
Year: 2012
USA & UK: Columbia Pictures / Sony Pictures Releasing
Cast: Colin Farrell, Kate Beckinsale, Jessica Biel, Bill Nighy, Bryan Cranston, Ethan Hawke, John Cho, Bokeem Woodbine, Steve Byers Will Yun Lee, Currie Graham, Denise Vasquez
Director: Len Wiseman
Counties: USA / Canada
USA & UK: 121 mins
USA Rated: PG-13 for intense sequences of sci-fi violence and action, some sexual content, brief nudity, and language
UK Certificate: 12A contains moderate violence, brief nudity and one use of strong language
USA Release Date: 3 August 2012
UK Release Date: 29 August 2012
Movie information:
Synopsis
"What is real?"
TOTAL RECALL is an action thriller about reality and memory, inspired anew by the famous short story “We Can Remember It For You Wholesale” by Philip K. Dick.
Welcome to Rekall, the company that can turn your dreams into real memories. For a factory worker named Douglas Quaid (Colin Farrell), even though he's got a beautiful wife (Kate Beckinsale) who he loves, the mind-trip sounds like the perfect vacation from his frustrating life - real memories of life as a super-spy might be just what he needs.But when the procedure goes horribly wrong, Quaid becomes a hunted man.
Finding himself on the run from the police " controlled by Chancellor Cohaagen (Bryan Cranston), the leader of the free world " Quaid teams up with a rebel fighter (Jessica Biel) to find the head of the underground resistance (Bill Nighy) and stop Cohaagen.
The line between fantasy and reality gets blurred and the fate of his world hangs in the balance as Quaid discovers his true identity, his true love, and his true fate.