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Short Take: There's much more to it beyond first glance

Director: Jonathon Mostow

Screenwriters: Michael Ferris and John Brancato (The Net, Terminator Salvation)

Cast: Bruce Willis (Live Free or Die Hard), Ving Rhames (M-I:III), Rosamund Pike (Pride and Prejudice), Radha Mitchell (Melinda and Melinda, Silent Hill)

Length: 1h 28m

Synopsis: Set in the future when most Americans, and over 1 billion people worldwide, live their lives by using advanced puppet-like robots called surrogates that allow them to experience the world from the safety of their own homes. Small groups of people are adamantly against the use of surrogates, claiming that doing so robs people of their humanity because experiences are no longer the peoples’, but their robots’. Things get complicated when one of these surrogate-less groups, led by a spiritualist known as The Prophet (Rhames), gets their hands on a weapon that is capable of killing someone through their surrogate. The weapon becomes the key in a web of mysteries that will determine the future of surrogates, as well as the people who use them. Read the rest of this entry »