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MPAA Rating - R

Length:
    103 Minutes

Genre:
    Science Fiction

Original Release Date:
    Aug 28, 2001

Director
    David Cronenberg

Cast
    Stephen Lack, Jennifer O'Neill, Patrick McGoohan, Lawrence Z. Dane, Chuck Shamata, Michael Ironside

 
Movie Summary
The title of this David Cronenberg sci-fi horror film refers to a group of people who have telekinetic powers that allow them to read minds and give them the ability to make other peoples heads explode. The children of a group of women who took an experimental tranquilizer during their pregnancies, the scanners are now adults and have become outcasts from society. But Darryl (Michael Ironside) decides to create an army of scanners to take over the world. The only person who can stop him is his brother Cameron (Stephen Lack), who wants to forget that he was ever a scanner. Winner of the International Fantasy Film Award at the 1983 Fantasporto Film Festival, Scanners was followed by a pair of sequels, neither of which involved Cronenberg. ~ Matthew Tobey, All Movie Guide


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