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Released
2006 · FILM

A Scanner Darkly

An undercover agent infiltrates a nation‑wide hallucination drug empire, risking his sanity and identity to dismantle the deadly supply chain before the entire country succumbs to its mind‑war.

“Everything is not going to be OK.”

Directed by
Richard Linklater
Written by
Philip K Dick, Richard Linklater
Rated
MPA · R
Runtime
100 min
AnimationComedyCrime

Synopsis

In a not-too-distant future, an undercover police officer becomes entangled with a dangerous new drug, leading to a gradual loss of his own identity.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 137+ credited

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Sandra AdairShot by Shane F KellyScored by Graham ReynoldsDesigned by Bruce Curtis

Box Office

2006 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.9× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$7.7M

Budget$8.7M
Worldwide gross$7.7M
break-even (2.5×)

Full synopsis

Also known as

  • A Scanner Darkly – Der dunkle Schirmde
  • Una mirada a la oscuridades

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Production3 Arts Entertainment

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