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Minority Report is a 2002 American cyberpunk [6] action film [7] directed by Steven Spielberg, loosely based on Philip K. Dick's 1956 novella The Minority Report.The film takes place in the Washington metropolitan area in 2054, in which a specialized police department—Precrime—apprehends criminals by use of foreknowledge provided by three psychics called "precogs".
Spielberg has characterized the movie's story as "fifty percent character and fifty percent very complicated storytelling with layers and layers of murder mystery and plot." [2] The film's central theme is the question of free will vs. determinism. It examines whether free will can exist if the future is set and known in advance.
1923: Raskolnikow (aka Crime and Punishment), German film made in 1923, directed by Robert Wiene. 1924: Paper Parinam, 1924 Indian production. [3] 1935: Crime and Punishment, directed by Josef von Sternberg and starring Peter Lorre, Edward Arnold, Marian Marsh, Douglass Dumbrille, Gene Lockhart, and Mrs Patrick Campbell. 1935: Crime and ...
The Life of David Gale is a 2003 crime thriller film directed and co-produced by Alan Parker, written by Charles Randolph, co-produced by Nicolas Cage, and starring Kevin Spacey as the title character, a college professor and longtime activist against capital punishment who is sentenced to death for killing a fellow capital punishment opponent; Kate Winslet, Laura Linney, and Gabriel Mann co-star.
[13] Michael John Petty of Collider favorably compared the movie and its source material, to the 1998 film Fallen, The Conjuring series, and to a greater extent The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis, and states that "Nefarious rises above the general clichés associated with faith-based productions and stands out as something increasingly more ...
The 2007 film An American Crime is directly based upon the life and murder of Sylvia Likens. Directed by Indiana native Tommy O'Haver and distributed by First Look Studios, the movie cast Elliot Page as Sylvia Likens and Catherine Keener as Gertrude Baniszewski. [194] The Girl Next Door is loosely based upon the murder of Sylvia Likens.
Crime and Punishment U.S.A. is a 1959 American crime drama film directed by Denis Sanders, written by Walter Newman and starring George Hamilton in his first screen role. [1] The film was released on November 1, 1959. The New York Times called the film "a beat generation version" [2] [3] of the novel Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
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