Blade Runner

Hong Kong, United Kingdom and United States of America, 1982

Film

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In the smog-choked dystopian Los Angeles of 2019, blade runner Rick Deckard is called out of retirement to terminate a quartet of replicants who have escaped to Earth seeking their creator for a way to extend their short life spans.

Ridley Scott’s adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s novel Do androids dream of electric sheep? has rapidly become a classic of the science fiction genre. In the smog-choked dystopian Los Angeles of 2019, blade runner Rick Deckard is called out of retirement to terminate a quartet of replicants who have escaped to Earth seeking their creator for a way to extend their short life spans. In the process Deckard has to confront disturbing questions about what makes a human being. Stars Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer and Sean Young.

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Credits

director

Ridley Scott

producer

Michael Deeley

production company

Shaw Brothers

visual effects

Douglas Trumbull

Richard Yuricich

Duration

01:57:00

Production dates
1982

Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

tmdb-movie-78

Language

English

Subject categories

Drama

Science Fiction

Thriller

TMDB-Movie

78

Wikidata

Q184843

Collected

4418 times

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