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Inspired by the famous Phillip K. Dick's novel, directed by Paul Verhoeven and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger as Douglas Quaid, Total Recall presents an astonishing story based on memory troubles between reality and virtuality. On planet Earth in 2048, every night, Quaid is haunted by a nightmare: together with a beautiful dark-haired woman he is on Planet Mars and the victim of a martial accident. He decides to ask the Recall Laboratory to transplant him a false memory implant but this goes terribly wrong and another personality surfaces... He has to go to Mars to join the underground but now neither he or we know which version of reality is true...
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Total Recall (1990)
113 min
Construction worker Douglas Quaid's obsession with the planet Mars leads him to visit Rekall, a virtual vacation company that manufactures memories. When something goes wrong during Quaid's memory implant procedure, his life turns upside down, leading him to question what is reality and what isn't.