RScanners

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500M
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Play Time: 103 mins
Science Fiction, Horror
Scanners

Overview:
After a man with extraordinary—and frighteningly destructive—telepathic abilities is nabbed by agents from a mysterious rogue corporation, he discovers he is far from the only possessor of such strange powers, and that some of the other “scanners” have their minds set on world domination, while others are trying to stop them.

Status: Released (1981-01-14)
Awards:3 wins & 9 nominations
BoxOffice:$14,225,876
Screen:David Cronenberg
Productions: Filmplan International, Canadian Film Development Corporation, Montreal Trust Company of Canada
Production Countries: Canada
Spoken Languages: English, Español
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When a demonstration to potential investors goes quite spectacularly wrong, it is clear that the eponymous characters have astonishing psychic powers and that creates dollar signs in the eyes of the executives at "ConSec". Thing is, chief amongst the "scanners" is the quite literally ....

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