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©2007
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1 videodisc (117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
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Originally produced as a motion picture in 1982. Final cut version remastered in 2007
Los Angeles, 2019: Rick Deckard of the LAPD's Blade Runner unit prowls the steel & microchip jungle of the 21st century. His job is to track down and eliminate assumed humanoids known as 'replicants.' Replicants were declared illegal after a bloody mutiny on an Off-World Colony, and are to be terminated upon detection. He wants to get out of the force, but is drawn back in when 6 "skin jobs," the slang for replicants, hijack a ship back to Earth. The city that Deckard must search for his prey is a huge, sprawling, bleak vision of the future. This 2007 "final cut" was remastered with improved visual and sound effects, and made some revisions to the 1992 "director's cut" revision
Based on the novel "Do androids dream of electric sheep?" / by Philip K. Dick
Special features: Introduction by director Ridley Scott ; 3 filmmaker commentaries with: Ridley Scott; executive producer/co-screenwriter Hampton Francher, co-screenwriter David Peoples, producer Michael Deeley and production executive Katherine Haber; visual futurist Syd Mead, production designer Lawrence G. Paull, art director David L. Snyder and special photographic effects supervisors Douglas Trumbull, Richard Yuricich and David Dryer
Director of photography, Jordan Cronenweth ; supervising editor, Terry Rawlings ; original music composer, Vangelis ; visual effects, Douglas Trumbull ; production designed by Lawrence G. Paull. Final cut restoration: producer, Charles de Lauzirika ; editor, Gillian Hutshing
Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, Edward James Olmos, M. Emmet Walsh, Daryl Hannah, William Sanderson, Brion James, Joe Turkel, Joanna Cassidy
MPAA rating: R; for violence and brief nudity
DVD; NTSC; widescreen presentation; Dolby digital 5.1 surround; region 1
In English or dubbed French, with optional English SDH, French and Spanish subtitles
Academy Award Nomination 1982 Art Direction
Academy Award Nomination 1982 Visual Effects