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Freejack
Sign in to saveFreejack is a 1992 American science fiction film directed by Geoff Murphy and starring Emilio Estevez, Mick Jagger, Rene Russo, and Anthony Hopkins. The screenplay was written by Steven Pressfield, Ronald Shusett and Dan Gilroy, who adapted it from the 1959 science fiction novel Immortality, Inc. by Robert Sheckley. The film was produced by Morgan Creek and released by Warner Bros. in the United States on January 17, 1992. It received mostly negative reviews.
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5.5Time-traveling bounty hunters find a doomed race-car driver in the past and bring him to 2009 New York, where his mind will be replaced with that of a terminally ill billionaire.
Cast
- Emilio Estevez as Alex Furlong
- Mick Jagger as Victor Vacendak
- Rene Russo as Julie Redlund
- Anthony Hopkins as Ian McCandless
- Jonathan Banks as Mark Michelette
- David Johansen as Brad Carter
Themes
- future
- bounty hunter
- based on novel or book
- chase
- immortality
- dystopia
- post-apocalyptic future
- time travel
- evil corporation
- cyberpunk
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Ratings
IMDb
5.4/10
17,955 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
29%
Metacritic
34/100
- Year
- 1992
- Runtime
- 110 min
- Genres
- Action, Crime, Sci-Fi
- Rated
- R
- Awards
- 3 nominations total
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Key facts
- Film.name
- Freejack
- Film.image
- Freejack.jpg
- Film.caption
- Theatrical release poster
- Film.director
- Geoff Murphy
- Film.cinematography
- Amir Mokri (Uncredited)
- Film.editing
- Dennis Virkler
- Film.music
- Trevor Jones
- Film.studio
- Morgan Creek Productions
- Film.distributor
- Warner Bros.
- Film.runtime
- 110 minutes
- Film.country
- United States
- Film.language
- English
- Film.budget
- $30 million
- Film.gross
- $37 million
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- cyberpunk
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English language
- Based on
- Immortality, Inc.
- Main subject
- mind uploading
- Director
- Geoff Murphy
- Screenwriter
- Ronald Shusett
- Cast member
- Mike Starr
- Composer
- Trevor Jones
- Producer
- Ronald Shusett
- Production company
- Morgan Creek Entertainment
- Narrative location
- New York City
- Filming location
- Atlanta
- Duration
- 105
- FilmAffinity ID
- 401902
- Distribution format
- video on demand
- Official website
- www.dimensionsofsheckley.com
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- publication date
- 1992-04-30
- title
- Freejack
- distributed by
- Netflix
- after a work by
- Robert Sheckley
- capital cost
- 30000000
- review score
- 25%
- set in period
- 2009
Sources (14)
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Encyclopedic overview
10 sectionsContents
- Plot
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- Production
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Freejack is a 1992 American science fiction film directed by Geoff Murphy and starring Emilio Estevez, Mick Jagger, Rene Russo, and Anthony Hopkins. The screenplay was written by Steven Pressfield, Ronald Shusett and Dan Gilroy, who adapted it from the 1959 science fiction novel Immortality, Inc. by Robert Sheckley. The film was produced by Morgan Creek and released by Warner Bros. in the United States on January 17, 1992. It received mostly negative reviews.
==Plot== In 2009, the super-wealthy achieve immortality by hiring "bonejackers", mercenaries equipped with time travel devices, to snatch people from the past, just prior to the moment of their deaths, for use as substitute bodies. Those who escape are known as "freejacks" and are considered less than human under the law. In this dystopian future, most people suffer from poor physical health as a result of rampant drug use and environmental pollution, making them unattractive as replacement bodies.
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