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. Some of the other “scanners” have their minds set on world domination, while others are trying to stop them.| Status: | Released (1981-01-14) |
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| Awards: | 3 wins & 9 nominations total |
| 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 |
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Crews
- 310: Ronald Sanders - Editor - Editing
- 224: David Cronenberg - Director - Directing
- 224: David Cronenberg - Writer - Writing
- 12476: Claude Héroux - Producer - Production
- 12477: Pierre David - Executive Producer - Production
- 12479: Victor Solnicki - Executive Producer - Production
- 117: Howard Shore - Original Music Composer - Sound
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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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