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Total Recall

Cast

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rachel Ticotin, Sharon Stone, Ronny Cox View All


Crew

Dan O'Bannon (Screenplay), Ronald Shusett (Screenplay), Paul Verhoeven (Director), Gary Goldman (Screenplay) View All

Release: Jun. 1st, 1990
Runtime: 1 hour, 53 minutes
Construction worker Douglas Quaid discovers a memory chip in his brain during a virtual-reality trip. He also finds that his past has been invented to conceal a plot of planetary domination. Soon, he's off to Mars to find out who he is and who planted the chip.
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21 Total Recall
Dream or reality? So hard to figure out, although I tend to lean towards dream....
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*Spoiler alert* (kind of not really) So tonight I went to go see Total Recall with my brother. We were going to see it last night at midnight but decided it probably wouldn't be worth it. Let me be t...
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I saw this in one of the mags we get at work advertising new releases coming soon. They're releasing Total Recall on DVD with a commentary with Ah-nuld himself. Comes in a mars metal case. Well wor...
5 Total Recall(2012) End Question
I just watched the Total Recall film and the scene in the extended edition where the tattoo has gone made me think it was a dream because the Chinese guy had told Doug his whole life, but then I thoug...
7 Total Recall 1990 question
I have watched this movie many times but I have just recently wondered, is Douglas Quaid/Hauser actually good or bad. Was the video that Quaid and Melina set up by Quaid to trick Cohaagan or is it Hau...

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JayDee
Most of the moments are a result of special effects and while Paul Verhoeven certainly deserves a great deal of credit for how he handles and incorporates the effects into the film, the real praise must go to the film's F/X maestro Rob Bottin.
mattiasflgrtll6
Now here's where it gets a bit tricky: After people start acting fishy towards him, including one of his co-workers, it turns out his wife is not his real wife, but intended as a permanent distraction so he would forget about who he used to be and what he did on Mars.
Daniel M
Total Recall is a film I would recommend to everyone, it works on almost every level.
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