| | | Get ready for the ride of your life.
Features: DVD, Special Edition, No Longer Produced
When a man goes for virtual vacation memories of the planetmars, an unexpected and harrowing series of events forces him togo to the planet for real, or does he?
"...original, exciting, and surprising..." At-A-Glance Film Reviews
Editor's Note
Arnold Schwarzenegger is perfectly cast as Quaid, a 2084 construction worker haunted by dreams of Mars in this crowd-pleasing science fiction spectacle. Against the wishes of his sexy blonde wife (Sharon Stone), Quaid goes to Rekall, a company that implants artificial memories, so he can "remember" visiting the red planet that is now being settled by human inhabitants. However, Quaid is actually an amnesiac secret agent from Mars--or is he? Enemy agents led by a thug named Richter (Michael Ironside) start trying to kill him before Quaid remembers anything more. Bullets and bone-crunching mayhem follow in large doses as Quaid heads to Mars to deal with mutants, ancient alien races, and Cohagen (Ronny Cox), a greedy capitalist controlling the colonists' air supply, in an effort to remember his real identity. TOTAL RECALL is based on the story "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale" by Philip K. Dick and was a big box-office hit, helping to firmly establish director Paul Verhoeven as a specialist in darkly satiric, blood-drenched genre films. His next stop: BASIC INSTINCT, also with Stone.
Plot Summary
In 2084, Quaid, a construction worker on Earth is haunted by dreams of another life on Mars. He goes to Rekall Inc. to have artificial memories of Mars planted in his head. However, during this procedure, a number of agents from Mars fear he will discover his mysterious true identity. Paul Verhoeven's film, based on a Philip K. Dick story, is a wild ride with eye-popping special effects.
| Features | Subtitles: English, Spanish, French | | Conceptual Art | | On-Set Photo Gallery | | Audio: English 5.1 Dolby Digital, 2.0 Dolby Digital Surround | | Theatrical Trailers | | "Imagining Total Recall" Documentary | | "Mars: Fact Or Fiction" Featurette | | Widescreen Version | | Audio Commentary By Arnold Schwarzenegger And Director Paul Verhoeven | | Production Notes |
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Release Information
| | Studio: Lions Gate |
| Release Date: 5/21/2002 |
| Running Time: 124 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1990 | | Catalog ID: 12474 | | UPC: 00012236124740 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | 1.85:1 |
| Cast & Crew
| Awards |
Oscar (1991) |  | Winner, Special Achievement Award For Visual Effects |
| Memorable Quotes| "See you at the party, Richter!"----Quaid (Arnold Schwarzenegger) after dispatching of Richter (Michael Ironside) |
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| | Professional Reviews | Rolling Stone
"...TOTAL RECALL is a gut cruncher on a grand scale..." 07/12/1990 p.42New York Times
"...A thunderous tribute to its star's determination to create, out of the unlikeliest raw materials, a patently synthetic yet surprisingly affable leading man..." 06/01/1990 p.C10 Los Angeles Times
"...Spectacular....TOTAL RECALL soars when it sends up its conventions..." 06/01/1990 p.F1 Total Film
"...Arnie does what he does best....TOTAL RECALL merits rose-tinted rewatching..." 09/01/2000 p.110 Sight and Sound
"[N]otable as one of the last great FX extravaganzas of the pre-digital era." 06/01/2005 p.87 Chicago Sun-Times 7 of 10
There may be people who overlook the Arnold Schwarzenegger performance in Total Recall--who think he isn't really acting. But the performance is one of the reasons the movie works so well. He isn't a superman this time, although he fights like one. He's a confused and frightened innocent, a man betrayed by the structure of reality itself. And in his vulnerability, he opens the way for Total Recall to be more than simply an action, violence and special effects extravaganza. - Roger Ebert
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