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Altered States

Cast

William Hurt, Blair Brown, Bob Balaban, Charles Haid View All


Crew

Paddy Chayefsky (Screenplay), Ken Russell (Director) View All

Release: Dec. 25th, 1980
Runtime: 1 hour, 42 minutes
A research scientist explores the boundaries and frontiers of consciousness. Using sensory deprivation and hallucinogenic mixtures from native American shamans, he explores these altered states of consciousness and finds that memory, time, and perhaps reality itself are states of mind.
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pahaK
Acting is kinda odd but it seems to have been mostly to piss off the writer whose script Russell hated but wasn't allowed to change.
mark f
Screenwriter Paddy Chayefsky apparently thought it did and had his name removed from the screenplay credits, but Ken Russell got the last laugh as he was able to turn the whole thing into a 2001-ish trip while never being boring and filling the screen with memorable imagery provided by cinematograph....


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