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blade runner (1982)

blade runner
Blade Runner
R
Drama
Documentary
Sci-Fi
Thriller

Release Date
June 25, 1982
Director
Ridley Scott
Runtime
117
Main Genre
Drama
Writers
Hampton Fancher , David Webb Peoples , Philip K. Dick , Roland Kibbee
Tagline
Man has made his match... now it's his problem.

Summary

Los Angeles, 2019: Rick Deckard of the LPD's Blade Runner unit prowls the steel & micro-chip jungle of the 21st century for 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. Man's obsession with creating a being equal to himself has back-fired.

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