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A Scanner Darkly Movie Story - Synopsis. Based on science-fiction author Philip K. Dick’s own experiences, “A Scanner Darkly” tells the deeply tragic tale of drug use in the modern world. A ive-action photography overlaid with an advanced animation process, The film plays like a graphic novel come to life. America’s war on drugs has become one and the same with its war on terror. Agent Bob Arctor (Keanu Reeves ) follows orders and starts spying on his friends, Jim Barris (Robert Downey Jr. ), Ernie Luckman (Woody Harrelson), Donna Hawthorne (Winona Ryder ) and Charles Freck (Rory Cochrane). When he is directed to step up the surveillance on himself, identities and loyalties are impossible to decode, when he is launched on a paranoid journey into the absurd. Philip K. Dick has become a cultural icon with his works of mind-bending fiction. His first novel debuted in 1955, and his works have sold roughly 20 million copies and been translated to 25 different languages. |