Total Recall Movie

Total Recall
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Run Time: 113 min
MPAA Rating: R
Released: 1990
Directors: Paul Verhoeven
Genre/Type: Action
Science Fiction
Sci-Fi Action
Space Adventure
Tech Noir
Producers: Buzz Feitshans
Ronald Shusett
Plot Synopsis by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
In Paul Verhoeven's wild sci-fi action movie Total Recall, Arnold Schwarzenegger plays a 21st-century construction worker who discovers that his entire memory of the past derives from a memory chip implanted in his brain. Schwarzenegger learns that he's actually a secret agent who had become a threat to the government, so those in power planted the chip and invented a domestic lifestyle for him. Once he has realized his true identity, he travels to Mars to piece together the rest of his identity, as well as to find the man responsible for his implanted memory. Verhoeven has created a fast, furious action film with Total Recall, filled with impressive stunts and (literally) eye-popping visuals. Though the film bears only a passing resemblance to the Philip K. Dick short story it was based on ("We Can Remember It For You Wholesale"), the movie is an entertaining, if very violent, ride.

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Cast

Actors Character Born
Arnold Schwarzenegger Doug Quaid Jul 30, 1947 in Graz, Austria
Rachel Ticotin Melina Nov 1, 1958 in Bronx, New York City, NY
Sharon Stone Lori Quaid Mar 10, 1958 in Meadville, PA
Ronny Cox Vilas Cohaagen Jul 23, 1938 in Cloudcroft, NM
Michael Ironside Richter Feb 12, 1950 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Marshall Bell George/Kuato
Mel Johnson, Jr. Benny
Michael Champion Helm
Roy Brocksmith Dr. Edgemar
Rosemary Dunsmore Dr. Lull
Pricilla Allen Fat Lady
Morgan Lofting
Alexia Robinson Tiffany
Joe Unger
Benny Corral Punk Cabbie
Robert Costanzo Harry
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Review by Brendon Hanley
Total Recall revels in the state-of-the-art special effects and frantic violence characteristic to most of director Paul Verhoeven's American productions. Though based on a story by the creator of Blade Runner, author Philip K. Dick, Total Recall is more of an action movie than a philosophical rumination on identity. Still, the film gets a lot of mileage out of the questionable notion that "you are what you remember." The screenplay was finally credited to seven screenwriters; it had bounced around Hollywood for a number of years with different directors and stars before it reached Verhoeven. The director's brand of high-octane, cartoonish violence is a good fit with the material, though his style may have been better suited to 1988's more satiric Robocop. The movie received a special achievement Academy Award for its impressive effects.
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