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Name: Brainstorm
Released: 1983-9-30
Cast: Christopher Walken, Natalie Wood, Louise Fletcher, Cliff Robertson, Jordan Christopher

Brainstorm

PG
1h 46m
1983

57%

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Imagine a machine that downloads one person's thoughts and sensations to another individual. Any person. Any experience. Now imagine how that breakthrough technology might be corrupted in the wrong hands. Christopher Walken, Natalie Wood (in her final film) and Louise Fletcher play virtual reality researchers determined to keep their high-tech invention from lowdown tampering in Brainstorm. Bruce Joel Rubin (Ghost, Jacob's Ladder) provides the tantalizing what if? story, and Douglas Trumbull (inventor of the first simulation theater and a special-effects trailblazer on 2001: A Space Odyssey) produces and directs this dazzling adventure. Wire up.

Director:

Douglas Trumbull

Producer:

Douglas Trumbull, Joel L. Freedman, Jack Grossberg

Writer:

Robert Sitzel, Philip Frank Messina, Bruce Joel Rubin

Cast:

Christopher Walken, Natalie Wood, Louise Fletcher, Cliff Robertson, Jordan Christopher, Donald Hotton, Alan Fudge, Joe Dorsey, Bill Morey, Jason Lively

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

57%

Reviews

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Bill Arceneaux

When combined with such vision and such application of large-format filmmaking, elevation occurs past popcorn thrills to memorable chills. It's some kind of masterpiece, rivaled only by the works of James Cameron (yes) and Terrence Malick (for sure).

An absorbing and disturbing look into telepathic engineering with a spectacular pay-off that deeply touches us all, dealing as it does with the subject of life after death.

It could have worked much more efficiently if its script did not fail so miserably either to make us feel close to its protagonists or to propose a plot that did not reach its last minutes completely frayed. [Full Review in Spanish]

The film can't decide whether it's scientific, political, or simply a romance. [Full Review in Spanish]

...an ambitious yet disastrously unfocused misfire from a thoroughly talented filmmaker.

October 3, 2018

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