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A Scanner Darkly
2006
· Movie
· 100 min
B
MEANRANK
71/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #356
- IMDb #292
- Rotten Tomatoes #303
- Metacritic #168
- Letterboxd #262
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #340
+8 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #259
- Metacritic Critics #127
- Metacritic Audience #223
- Criticker #120
- Douban #215
- Kinopoisk #290
- AlloCiné #442
- Trakt #411
Every rating
53–86
out of 100
In a near-future America, an undercover narcotics agent is assigned to spy on a group of friends who are addicted to a powerful substance called Substance D. The drug causes severe split-brain effects, and the agent's own addiction begins to blur the lines between his identity, his assignment, and the very people he is supposed to be monitoring.
Details
- Director
- Richard Linklater
- Writer
- Richard Linklater
- Based on
- A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick
- Released
- 7 July 2006
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 100 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $8.7M
- Box office
- $7.7M
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Awards
4 wins & 21 nominations total
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