Impostor (film)

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Impostor
Image:Impostor.jpg Impostor theatrical poster
Directed by	Gary Fleder
Produced by	Michael Phillips
Written by	Philip K. Dick (short story), Scott Rosenberg (adaptation), Caroline Case (screenplay, Ehren Kruger (screenplay), and David Twohy (screenplay)
Starring	Gary Sinise, Madeleine Stowe, and Vincent D'Onofrio
Distributed by	Dimension Films
Release date(s)	January 4, 2002
Running time	93 min
Language	English
Budget	NA
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Impostor is a 2002 science fiction film based upon a short story written by Philip K. Dick in 1953.

[edit] Plot

Gary Sinise plays Spence Olham, a top-secret government weapons designer who is arrested by a clandestine government organization on suspicion of being a clone created by the hostile alien race wanting to take over earth. He learns from the group's leader (Vincent D'Onofrio) that the clones are perfect copies of the original human specimen (complete with memories), except they carry within their chest a small nuclear bomb. The organization captured an alien transmission that stated that Olham's clone was to assassinate a government official (Lindsay Crouse) when he came into contact her, but Olham defends his humanity.

He manages to escape the interrogation room and has various adventures on the lam until Olham and his wife are trapped by government troops in a forest near an alien crash site. When one half of the cockpit is pulled away, revealing the murdered corpse of Olham's real wife, the government troops turn their guns on the surprised clone to prevent her bomb from detonating. However, when the other half of the cockpit is pulled back, revealing Olham's corpse, the other Olham finally realizes he was indeed the clone the government thought he was. This utter shock causes the detonation sequence to engage. The Group's leader turns around at the last moment to see Olham's eyes turn black and then the bomb in his chest explodes, atomizing everything within several miles and claiming the lives of thousands of people.

[edit] Production and reception

The film adaptation was originally planned to be one segment of a three-part sci-fi anthology film before it was decided to expand it to feature length. Originally shot in 2000, the oft-delayed film was finally released in 2002 and received a lukewarm reception.

The movie made $6,114,237 on an estimated $40 million budget.

The film is remembered for the quote: "There's a bomb in his chest!"

[edit] External links

Impostor at the Internet Movie Database

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Blade Runner (1982) · Total Recall (1990) · Confessions of a Crap Artist (1992) · Screamers (1995) · Impostor (2002) · Minority Report (2002) · Paycheck (2003) · A Scanner Darkly (2006) · Next (2007) · Radio Free Albemuth (TBA)