The film was written and directed by Richard Linklater and stars Keanu Reeves, Robert Downey, Jr., Woody Harrelson, and Winona Ryder. Steven Soderbergh and George Clooney are among the executive producers. A Scanner Darkly had a limited release in July 2. The film was screened at the 2. Cannes Film Festival4 and the 2. Seattle International Film Festival, and nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form in 2. The United States has lost the war on drugs. Substance D, a powerful and dangerous drug that causes bizarre hallucinations, has swept the country. Torrentz will always love you. Farewell. 20032016 Torrentz. Approximately 2. 0 of the total population is addicted. In response, the government has developed an invasive, high tech surveillance system and a network of undercover officers and informants. Bob Arctor is one of these undercover agents, assigned to immerse himself in the drugs underworld and infiltrate the supply chain. Sometime in the past, Arctor abandoned his wife and two children, leaving him alone in a now rundown suburban house in Anaheim, California the house has since been repopulated by Arctors two drug addicted, layabout housemates Luckman and Barris. The three spend their days intoxicated and having long, paranoiac conversations. At the police station, Arctor maintains privacy by wearing a scramble suit that constantly changes every aspect of his appearance and he is known only by the code name Fred. Arctors senior officer, Hank, and all other undercover officers, also wear scramble suits, protecting their identities even from each other. Since going undercover, Arctor himself has become addicted to Substance D and he has befriended the main woman he has been spying on a cocaine addict and Substance D supplier named Donna. Arctor hopes to purchase large enough quantities of Substance D from Donna that she is forced to introduce him to her own supplier, but he has also developed seemingly unrequited romantic feelings towards her. At work, Hank orders Arctor to step up surveillance on Arctor himself and his associates however, Arctors house is now at the center of his own investigation, since this is where Donna and the other addicts in her and Arctors life now spend most of their time. Arctor, therefore, has to even more carefully plan his double life, though his prolonged use of Substance D is damaging his brain, causing him to sometimes forget his own identity. Meanwhile, the justified paranoia of Arctors housemates reaches extreme levels, and Barris secretly communicates to the police his exaggerated belief that Donna and Arctor are terrorists Barris unknowingly conveys this information in the presence of Arctor himself, whose identity at the time is hidden behind his scramble suit. After Barris supplies the police with a faked recording allegedly proving his claims about Donna and Arctor, Hank orders that Barris be held on charges of providing false information. After Barriss arrest, Hank reveals to Arctor that he has deduced him to be the true identity of Fred by a process of elimination. Arctor seems legitimately surprised and repeats his own name in a disoriented, unfamiliar tone. Hank informs him that the real purpose of the surveillance was to catch Barris, not Arctor, and that the police were deliberately increasing Barriss paranoia until he attempted to cover his tracks. Hank reprimands Arctor for becoming addicted to Substance D, and warns him that he will be disciplined, likely with just a fine but possibly a few months of penal labor. Hank phones Donna, asks her to take Arctor to New Path, a corporation that runs a series of rehabilitation clinics, and Arctor, who is rapidly becoming more disoriented, leaves Hanks office, cursing Hank aloud. Afterwards, Hank enters the locker room and removes his scramble suit, revealing his true identity to the audience Donna. At the New Path clinic, Arctor experiences the symptoms of Substance D withdrawal, including more severe brain damage. He mindlessly repeats what others tell him and utters mostly simplistic responses. Some time later, Donna revealed to be another false name converses with a fellow police officer, Mike, and the audience learns that New Path is responsible for the manufacture and distribution of Substance D ironically they use victims of the drug to tend their crops, since being nearly mindless they can be trusted not to reveal New Paths secret. Donna expresses her growing ethical aversion to their police work, in which they deliberately selected Arctorwithout his knowledgeto become addicted to Substance D all along his health was sacrificed so that he might eventually enter a New Path rehabilitation center unnoticed as a genuine addict and collect incriminating evidence of New Paths Substance D farms. Donna and Mike debate whether Arctors mind will recover enough so that he grasps the situation and returns from serving his sentence with substantial evidence to shut down New Path. In the final scene, New Path gives Arctor a new name Bruce and sends him from the clinic to a labor camp at an isolated New Path farm, where he spots rows of blue flowers hidden between rows of corn. These flowers, referenced throughout the film, are the source of Substance D. Full List of Movie Scripts and Screenplays available for download on the net EnjoyAs the film ends, Arctor hides a blue flower in his boot, apparently prepared to hand it over to the authorities during his upcoming Thanksgiving respite, though it is not at all clear whether he has recovered enough of his mental faculties to do so. End creditseditThe end credits feature an abridged version of the afterword of Philip K. Dicks novel, in which Dick lists people he knew who have suffered serious permanent physical or mental damage brain damage, psychosis, pancreatic trauma, etc. Dick includes his own name on the list, as Phil, a victim of permanent pancreatic damage. Home of Warner Bros. Movies, TV Shows and Video Games including Harry Potter, DC Comics and more Offers 50 GB of free storage space. Uploaded files are encrypted and only the user holds the decryption keys. Linklater adds another name to the credits and dedicates the film to the memory of Louis H. Mackey, an influential philosophy professor at the University of Texas at Austin he had appeared in two of Linklaters previous films. Mackey died in 2. ProductioneditOriginally, Richard Linklater toyed with adapting the Philip K. Dick novel Ubik but stopped early on because he was unable to obtain the rights and he couldnt quite crack it. He began thinking about A Scanner Darkly, another dark novel while talking to producer Tommy Pallotta during the making of Waking Life. Linklater liked A Scanner Darkly more than Ubik and felt that he could make a film out of it. According to Linklater, the challenge was to capture the humor and exuberance of the book but not let go of the sad and tragic. Linklater was not interested in turning the book into a big budget action thriller as had been done in the past because he felt that A Scanner Darkly was about these guys and what theyre all doing in their alternative world and whats going through their minds is really what keeps the story moving. He wanted to keep the budget under 1. After completing School of Rock, Linklater told Pallotta that he wanted to make A Scanner Darkly next. It was important to him that Dicks estate approve his film. Pallotta wrote a personal appeal and pitched a faithful adaptation of the novel to Russ Galen, the Philip K. Torrentz Search Engine. Torrentz will always love you.