Minority Report
Minority Report is a 2002 American cyberpunk action film directed by Steven Spielberg, loosely based on the 1956 novella "The Minority Report" by Philip K. Dick. The film is set in Washington, D.C., and Northern Virginia in the year 2054, where Precrime, a specialized police department, apprehends criminals by use of foreknowledge provided by three psychics called "precogs". The cast stars Tom Cruise as Precrime Chief John Anderton, Colin Farrell as Department of Justice agent Danny Witwer, Samantha Morton as precog Agatha Lively, and Max von Sydow as Precrime director Lamar Burgess. The film combines elements of tech noir, whodunit, thriller and science fiction genres, as well as a traditional chase film, as the main protagonist is accused of a crime he has not committed and becomes a fugitive. Spielberg characterized the story as "fifty percent character and fifty percent very complicated storytelling with layers and layers of murder mystery and plot".
Plot
In 2054, the federal government plans to nationally implement the Washington, D.C., prototype "Precrime" police program, which has been operating for six years. Three clairvoyant humans ("precogs") receive psychic impressions of an impending homicide, and officers analyze their visions to determine the location and apprehend the perpetrator before the crime can occur. Would-be killers are placed in an electrically induced coma and held in a panopticon-like prison facility. Although Precrime has eliminated nearly all premeditated murders during its six-year existence, spontaneous crimes of passion called "red ball" killings still occur, giving the police only a short time to act.
Awards
Cast
- Anna Maria Horsford
- Arye Gross
- Ashley Crow
- Blake Bashoff
- Cameron Crowe
- Caroline Lagerfelt
- Colin Farrell
- Daniel London
- Dominic Scott Kay
- Frank Grillo
- George D. Wallace
- Gina Gallego
- Jason Antoon
- Jessica Capshaw
- Jessica Harper
- Jim Rash
- Joel Gretsch
- Kathryn Morris
- Lois Smith
- Max von Sydow
- Meredith Monroe
- Mike Binder
- Neal McDonough
- Patrick Kilpatrick
- Paul Wesley
- Peter Stormare
- Samantha Morton
- Scott Frank
- Steve Harris
- Tim Blake Nelson
- Tom Cruise
- Tyler Patrick Jones
- Victor Raider-Wexler
- William Mapother
More details
| author | Jon Cohen Scott Frank |
|---|---|
| award | Saturn Award for Best Science Fiction Film |
| contentLocation | Washington, D.C. |
| director | Steven Spielberg |
| editor | Michael Kahn |
| events | criminal investigation |
| genre | action crime mystery science fiction thriller |
| keywords | abandon abduct arrest brain damage crime of passion crimes of passion department of justice drown federal government federal government of the united states future vision group mind hotel room kill murder panopticon police surveillance prison warden the national united states department of justice wash |
| musicBy | John Williams |
| nomination | European Film Award for Best Non-European Film |
| producer | Bonnie Curtis Gerald R. Molen Jan de Bont Walter F. Parkes |
| productionCompany | 20th Century Fox |
| publisher | 20th Century Fox |
| recordedAt | Florida Los Angeles |
| theme | chase dystopian memory neo-noir noir northern science fiction action science fiction thriller security and surveillance |