Total Recall (1990 film)
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| Directed by | Paul Verhoeven |
| Produced by |
Buzz Feitshans Ronald Shusett |
| Screenplay by | Ronald Shusett Dan O'Bannon Gary Goldman |
| Story by | Ronald Shusett Dan O'Bannon Jon Povill |
| Based on | "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale" by Philip K. Dick |
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| Music by | Jerry Goldsmith |
| Cinematography | Jost Vacano |
| Edited by |
Frank J. Urioste Carlos Puente |
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| Distributed by | TriStar Pictures |
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113 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $50–65 million |
| Box office | $261.3 million |
| Total Recall: The Deluxe Edition | |
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| Soundtrack album by Jerry Goldsmith | |
| Released | 2001 |
| Length | 66:52 |
| Language | English |
| Label | Varèse Sarabande |
| Director | Jerry Goldsmith |
Total Recall is a 1990 American science fiction action film directed by Paul Verhoeven, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rachel Ticotin, Sharon Stone, Ronny Cox and Michael Ironside. The film is loosely based on the Philip K. Dick story We Can Remember It for You Wholesale. It tells the story of a construction worker who is having troubling dreams about Mars and a mysterious woman there. It was written by Ronald Shusett, Dan O'Bannon, Jon Povill, and Gary Goldman, and won a Special Achievement Academy Award for its visual effects. The original score composed by Jerry Goldsmith won the BMI Film Music Award.
With a budget between $50–65 million, Total Recall was one of the most expensive films made at the time of its release, although estimates of its production budget vary and it is not certain whether it ever actually held the record.
In 2084, construction worker Douglas Quaid (Arnold Schwarzenegger) is having troubling dreams about Mars and a mysterious woman there. His wife Lori (Sharon Stone) dismisses the dreams and discourages him from thinking about Mars, where the governor, Vilos Cohaagen (Ronny Cox), is fighting rebels while searching for a rumored alien artifact located in the mines. At Rekall, a company that provides memory implants of vacations, Quaid opts for a memory trip to Mars as a Secret Agent fantasy. However, during the procedure, before the memory is implanted, something goes wrong, and Quaid starts revealing previously suppressed memories of actually being a Secret Agent. The company sedates him, wipes his memory of the visit, and sends him home. On the way home, Quaid is attacked by his friend Harry (Robert Costanzo) and some construction co-workers; he is forced to kill them, using elite fighting skills. He is then attacked in his apartment by Lori, who states that she was never his wife; their marriage was just a false memory implant, and Cohaagen sent her as an agent to monitor Quaid. He is then attacked and pursued by armed thugs led by Richter (Michael Ironside), Lori's real husband and Cohaagen's operative.
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