Everything is not going to be OK.
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.
- Addiction
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Character
Grave, contemporary, bleak and open-ended.
- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
- warmbleak
- resolvedopen-ended
- unpretentiousprestige
Who loves it, who doesn't
22 profiled raters. Loved most by The Provocateurs; disliked most by The Thrill Chasers.
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Cast
- Keanu ReevesBob Arctor
- Robert Downey Jr.James Barris
- Woody HarrelsonErnie Luckman
- Winona RyderDonna Hawthorne
- Rory CochraneCharles Freck
- Mitch BakerBrown Bear Lodge Host
- Sean AllenAdditional Fred Scramble Suit Voice (voice)
- Cliff HabyVoice from Headquarters (voice)
- Steven Chester PrinceCop
- Natasha ValdezWaitress
Crew
- Richard LinklaterDirector
- Richard LinklaterScreenplay
- Philip K. DickNovel
- Shane F. KellyDirector of Photography
- Graham ReynoldsOriginal Music Composer
- Sandra AdairEditor
- Jonah SmithProducer
- Tommy PallottaProducer
- Anne Walker-McBayProducer
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Pairings
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Similar in taste
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She Remembered Caterpillars 201777% alikeGame · Both contemporary, grave.
Severance 202275% alikeTelevision · Both grave, contemporary.
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