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Overview
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Release Date:
4 January 2002 (USA)
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Tagline:
In the Future, not everyone is who they seem to be.
Plot:
An engineer creates the ultimate weapon in a battle against aliens, only to be suspected as an alien himself...
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1 nomination
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Much better than Minority Report...
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Gary Sinise | ... | Spencer Olham |
 | Madeleine Stowe | ... | Maya Olham |
 | Vincent D'Onofrio | ... | Hathaway |
 | Tony Shalhoub | ... | Nelson Gittes |
 | Tim Guinee | ... | Dr. Carone |
 | Mekhi Phifer | ... | Cale |
 | Gary Dourdan | ... | Captain Burke |
 | Lindsay Crouse | ... | Chancellor |
| Elizabeth Peña | ... | Midwife (as Elizabeth Pena) |
| Jason Beck | ... | Gang Boy #2 |
| Judy Jean Berns | ... | Disgruntled Woman |
| Veena Bidasha | ... | Frowning Nurse |
| Ellen Bradley | ... | Nursing Mother |
 | Shane Brolly | ... | Lt. Burrows |
| Golden Brooks | ... | Cale's Sister |
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MPAA:
Rated PG-13 for intense sci-fi violence, some sensuality and language. (rerating); Rated R for violence and some language. (director's cut)
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95 min | USA:102 min (R-rated version)
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Color (Technicolor)
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1.85 : 1 more
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Finland:K-15 |
Iceland:16 |
South Korea:12 |
Argentina:13 |
Australia:MA |
Canada:AA |
Netherlands:16 |
Peru:14 |
Philippines:PG-13 |
Portugal:M/12 |
Spain:13 |
UK:15 |
USA:PG-13 (re-rating) (certificate #37922) |
USA:R (director's cut) |
USA:R (original rating 2000) |
Germany:16
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A street scene is filmed in a courtyard of Cal Poly Pomona's administration building, the same one used for Jude Law's apartment building in "Gattaca". Several students and staff of Cal Poly Pomona were used as extras for this scene.
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Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Captain Burke is explaining to Major Hathaway why they can't get a scan on the building, his lips don't match his words.
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Quotes:
Comms officer:
I have the Secretary of Defense calling for you.
Major D.H. Hathaway: I bet you do.
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Major D.H. Hathaway: I bet you do.
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Movie Connections:
References Total Recall (1990)
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Boy from Ipanema
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I was surprised to see that IMDB users had rated this movie as low as they did. This movie really exemplifies the paranoia that is typical of the works of Philip K. Dick much better than the more expensive and more widely-seen "Minority Report". As much as that movie had going for it (great visuals and action, leavened by the right amount of humor), it let the viewer off the hook at the end by resolving the story with a tidy, happy, feel-good ending. "Impostor" is a much lower budget film and very grim but remains true to its Phildickian origin throughout, with the plot unfolding layer by layer until the end, which is both shocking and inevitable. It's the kind of stuff great "Twilight Zone" episodes were made of.