In the sci-fi thriller "A Scanner Darkly," the main character, played by Keanu Reeves, appears as a hazy, shape-shifting mass of ever-changing skin tones and features. A reluctant undercover drug ...

NEW YORK-- With rotoscoping, anything can be made animated, even Keanu Reeves. It is this tracing animation that director Richard Linklater has again turned to -- just as he did for his dreamy 2001 ...

A Scanner Darkly: Animated drama. Starring Keanu Reeves, Rory Cochrane, Robert Downey Jr. and Winona Ryder. Directed by Richard Linklater. (R. 100 minutes. At Bay Area theaters.) Moviemakers over the ...

With rotoscoping, anything can made animated, even Keanu Reeves. It is this tracing animation that director Richard Linklater has again turned to — just as he did for his dreamy 2001 film “Waking Life ...

Keanu Reeves and Winona Ryder take a semi-animated form in "A Scanner Darkly," based on Philip K. Dick's novel about his own drug abuse. Linklater, you’ve landed lookers such as Keanu Reeves, Winona ...

?A Scanner Darkly? is a film that is groundbreaking not only in its supremely original animation style, but also in its political and social commentary. Based on a Philip K. Dick novel written in 1977 ...

The late Philip K. Dick’s science-fiction stories inspired “Blade Runner,” “Minority Report” and “Total Recall.” Now the prolific writer-director Richard Linklater is adding to the list with the ...

"What does a scanner see?" a character muses toward the end of "A Scanner Darkly." Whatever the answer is, audiences may find there's less than meets the eye in Richard Linklater's adaptation of ...

"What does a scanner see?" a character muses toward the end of "A Scanner Darkly." Whatever the answer is, audiences may find there's less than meets the eye in Richard Linklater's adaptation of ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Richard Linklater’s faithful film adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s A Scanner Darkly, with its ...

But not once has his drug-flecked, shifting reality — or his deep and abiding humanism — been brought so completely to life as it has in A Scanner Darkly, among the eeriest, freakiest, most cinematic ...