A Scanner Darkly movie

An undercover cop in a not-too-distant future becomes involved with a dangerous new drug and begins to lose his own identity as a result.

A Scanner Darkly is a 1977 science fiction novel by Philip K. Dick. The semi-autobiographical story was set in a dystopian Orange County, California in the future of June 1994. The book includes an extensive portrayal of drug culture and drug use.SynopsisThe protagonist is both Bob Arctor, member of a household of drop-out drug-users, and Agent Fred, an undercover police agent assigned to spy on them.

Arctor/Fred shields his true identity both from those in the drug subculture and, ironically, from the police themselves. The requirement that narcotics agents remain anonymous, to avoid collusion and other forms of corruption, becomes a critical plot point late in the book. While supposedly only posing as a drug user, Arctor becomes addicted to Substance D (also known as Slow Death, Death or D), a powerful psychoactive drug. An ongoing conflict is Arctors love for Donna, a drug dealer through whom he intends to identify high-level dealers of Substance D. Arctors persistent use of the drug, which causes the two hemispheres of the brain to function independently, produces the strange scenario in which Arctor and Agent Fred do not realize they are the same person. Incapable of combining what each persona knows, Fred begins spying on himself, Arctor, more passionately.

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A Scanner Darkly Cast

• Angela Rawna
• Chamblee Ferguson
• Cliff Haby
• Eliza Stevens
• Keanu Reeves
• Mark Turner
• Mitch Baker
• Natasha Valdez
• Robert Downey Jr. hot
• Sarah Menchaca
• Sean Allen
• Steven Chester Prince
• Winona Ryder
• Woody Harrelson