Total Recall (1990 film)

Total Recall is a 1990 American science fiction action film directed by Paul Verhoeven, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rachel Ticotin, and Sharon Stone. The film is loosely based on the Philip K. Dick story We Can Remember It for You Wholesale. It tells the story of a construction worker who is having troubling dreams about Mars and a mysterious woman there. It was written by Ronald Shusett, Dan OBannon, Jon Povill, and Gary Goldman, and won a Special Achievement Academy Award for its visual effects. The original score composed by Jerry Goldsmith won the BMI Film Music Award.

In 2084, Earthbound construction worker Douglas Quaid Arnold Schwarzenegger is having troubling dreams about Mars and a mysterious woman there. His wife Lori Sharon Stone dismisses the dreams and discourages him from thinking about Mars, where the governor, Vilos Cohaagen Ronny Cox, is fighting rebels while searching for a rumored alien artifact located in the mines. At Rekall, a company that provides memory implants of vacations, Quaid opts for a memory trip to Mars as a Secret Agent fantasy. However, during the procedure, before the memory is implanted, something goes wrong, and the story diverges between the question of what is real and what is hallucination. Apparently, Quaid starts revealing previously suppressed memories of actually being a Secret Agent. The company sedates him, wipes his memory of the visit, and sends him home. On the way home, Quaid is attacked by his friend Harry Robert Costanzo and some construction coworkers he is forced to kill them, revealing elite fightingskills. He is then attacked in his apartment by Lori, who reveals that she was never his wife their marriage was just a false memory implant, and Cohaagen sent her as an agent to monitor Quaid. He is then attacked and pursued by armed thugs led by Richter Michael Ironside, Loris real husband and Cohaagens operative.After evading his attackers, Quaid is given a suitcase containing money, gadgets, fake IDs, a disguise, and a video recording. The video is of Quaid himself, who identifies himself as Hauser and explains that he used to work for Cohaagen but learned about the artifact and underwent the memory wipe to protect himself. Hauser instructs Quaid to remove a tracking device located inside his skull before ordering him to go to Mars and check into the Hilton Hotel with a fake ID. Quaid makes his way to Mars and follows clues to Venusville, the colonys redlight district, primarily populated by people mutated as a result of poor radiation shielding. He meets Benny Mel Johnson, Jr.,

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