Douglas Quaid (Arnold Schwarzenegger) is a bored construction worker in the year 2084 who dreams of visiting the colonized Mars. He visits "Rekall," a company that plants false memories into people's brains, in order to experience the thrill of Mars without having to travel there. But something goes wrong during the procedure; Quaid discovers that his entire life is actually a false memory and that the people who implanted it in his head now want him dead.
Release date: June 1, 1990 (USA)
Director: Paul Verhoeven
Adapted from: We Can Remember It for You Wholesale
Budget: 65 million USD
Story by: Philip K. Dick, Ronald Shusett, Dan O'Bannon, Jon Povill
Screenplay: Philip K. Dick, Ronald Shusett, Dan O'Bannon, Gary Goldman