Minority Report [P&S] [2 Discs]

Overview

"Based on a short story by the late Philip K. Dick, this science fiction-thriller reflects the writer's familiar preoccupation with themes of concealed identity and mind control. Tom Cruise stars as John Anderton, a Washington, D.C. detective in the year 2054. Anderton works for ""Precrime,"" a special unit of the police department that arrests murderers before they have committed the actual crime. Precrime bases its work on the visions of three psychics or ""precogs"" whose prophecies of future events are never in error. When Anderton discovers that he has been identified as the future killer of a man he's never met, he is forced to become a fugitive from his own colleagues as he tries to uncover the mystery of the victim-to-be's identity. When he kidnaps Agatha (Samantha Morton), one of the precogs, he begins to formulate a theory about a possible frame-up from within his own department. Directed by Steven Spielberg, who hired a team of futurists to devise the film's numerous technologically advanced gadgets, Minority Report co-stars Colin Farrell, Max von Sydow, and Neal McDonough."

Product Details

Release Date:	12/17/2002
UPC:	0678149013122
Original Release:	2002
Rating:	PG-13
Source:	Dreamworks Video
Region Code:	1
Presentation:	[Full Frame]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround, Dolby Digital Surround]
Language:	English
Time:	2:26:00
Sales rank:	47,908

Special Features

Closed Caption;Minority Report - Story to Screen; Deconstructing Minority Report featurette; The Stunts of Minority Report featurette; The Digital World of Minority Report featurette; Final Report: In-depth discussion with Steven Spielberg and Tom Cruise; Minority Report Archives: Production concepts for sets, costumes, props and vehicles, storyboard sequences, production notes, production photographs and bios

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Tom Cruise	Chief John Anderton [Pre-Crime]
Samantha Morton	Agatha [Pre-Cog Chamber]
Max von Sydow	Director Lamar Burgess [Pre-Crime]
Kathy Morris	Lara Clarke
Neal McDonough	Fletcher [Pre-Crime]
Patrick Kilpatrick	Knott [Pre-Crime]
Jessica Capshaw	Evanna [Pre-Crime]
Daniel London	Wally the Caretaker [Pre-Cog Chamber]
Lois Smith	Dr. Iris Hineman [The Greenhouse],Technician [Pre-Crime]
Tim Blake Nelson	Gideon [Department of Containment]
Peter Stormare	Dr. Solomon Eddie [Operating Room]
Caroline Lagerfelt	Greta van Eyck [Operating Room]
Jason Antoon	Rufus Riley at Cyber Parlor [The Mall]
Mike Binder	Leo Crow
Arye Gross	Howard Marks
Ashley Crowe	Sarah Marks,Bus Passenger
Joel Gretsch	Donald Doobin
Anna Maria Horsford	Casey [Pre-Crime]
Sarah Simmons	Lamar Burgess' Secretary [Pre-Crime]
George D. Wallace	Chief Justice Pollard [Pre-Crime Witness]
Ann Ryerson	Dr. Katherine James [Pre-Crime Witness]
Tyler Patrick Jones	Older Sean Anderton
Dominic Scott Kay	Younger Sean Anderton
Jessica Harper	Anne Lively
Bertell Lawrence	John Doe
Richard Coca	Pre-Crime Cop
Kirk Woller	Pre-Crime Cop
Frank Grillo	Pre-Crime Cop
Klea Scott	Pre-Crime Cop,Conceited Customer [The Mall]
Eugene Osment	Jad's Technician [Pre-Crime]
James Henderson	Office Worker [Pre-Crime]
Vene L. Arcoraci	Office Worker [Pre-Crime]
Erica Ford	Employee [Pre-Crime]
Keith Flippen	Tour Guide [Pre-Crime]
Nathan Taylor	Kid Tourist [Pre-Crime]
Radmar Agana Jao	Technician [Pre-Crime]
Karina Logue	Technician [Pre-Crime]
Victoria Kelleher	Technician [Pre-Crime]
Jim Rash	Technician [Pre-Crime]
Stephen Ramsey	Jucket - Agent #1 [FBI]
Tom Choi	Paymen - Agent #2 [FBI]
Tom Whitenight	Price - Agent #3 [FBI]
William Morts	Foley - Agent #4 [FBI]
Michael Dickman	Arthur [Pre-Cog Chamber],Dashiell [Pre-Cog Chamber]
Bill Mesnik	Cyber Parlor Customer [The Mall]
Severin Wunderman	Skiing Customer [The Mall]
Max Trumpower	Homeless Person [The Mall]
Allie Raye	Hamburger Mom [The Chase]
Nicholas Edwin Barb	Homework Boy [The Chase]
Catfish Bates	Tenement Snitch [The Chase]
Danny Parker-Lopes	Man [Tenement Bldg.]
Vanesa Cedotal	Woman [Tenement Bldg.]
Katy Boyer	Mother [Tenement Bldg.]
Adrianna Kamosa	Child [Tenement Bldg.],Child [Tenement Bldg.],Child [Tenement Bldg.]
Kari Gordon	Child [Tenement Bldg.],Child [Tenement Bldg.]
Fiona Hale	Old Woman
Clement Blake	Husband [Tenement Bldg.]
Jerry Perchesky	Grandfather [Tenement Bldg.]
Victor Raider-Wexler	Attorney General Nash [The Ballroom]
Nancy Linehan Charles	Celeste Burgess [The Ballroom]
Nadia Axakowsky	Reporter [The Ballroom]
Dude Walker	Reporter [The Ballroom]
Tony Hill	Reporter [The Ballroom]
Drakeel Burns	Reporter [The Ballroom]
William Mapother	Hotel Clerk
Morgan Hasson	Paperboy
Andrew Sandler	Marks' Son
Bonnie Morgan	Contortionist,Adulation #3
Kathi Copeland	Murder Bystander
Ana Maria Quintana	Murder Bystander
Lucille M. Oliver	Murder Bystander
Gene Wheeler	Murder Bystander
Tonya Ivey	Gap Girl
David Stifel	Lycon - Seller of Black Inhalers
Kurt Sinclair	Adulation #1
Rebecca Ritz	Adulation #2
Maureen Dunn	Adulation #5
Ron Ulstad	Adulation #6
Blake Bashoff	Pre-Crime Public Service Announcer
David Doty	Pre-Crime Public Service Announcer
Gina Gallegos	Pre-Crime Public Service Announcer
David Hornsby	Pre-Crime Public Service Announcer
Anne Judson-Yager	Pre-Crime Public Service Announcer
Meredith Monroe	Pre-Crime Public Service Announcer
Benita Krista Nall	Pre-Crime Public Service Announcer
Shannon O'Hurley	Pre-Crime Public Service Announcer
Jorge Pallo	Pre-Crime Public Service Announcer
Elizabeth Payne	Pre-Crime Public Service Announcer
Ethan Sherman	Revo Sunglass Model [Commercial]
Miles Dinsmoor	Guinness Man [Commercial]
Vanessa Asbert	Bulgari Model [Commercial]
Paul Thomas Anderson	Bus Passenger
Cameron Diaz	Bus Passenger
Paul Haslinger	Composer

Technical Credits

Scott Frank

Steve Spielberg	Director
Scott Frank	Screenwriter
Gerald R. Molen	Producer
Walter F. Parkes	Producer
Bonnie Curtis	Producer
Jan de Bont	Producer
Gary Goldman	Executive Producer
Ronald Shusett	Executive Producer
J.R. Grubbs	Sound Effects

Editorial Reviews

In adapting one of Philip K. Dick's dystopian tales, Steven Spielberg has a tough act to follow after Blade Runner (1982) survived its box office death via E.T. (1982) to become one of the 1980s' most revered films. Rising to the challenge in eye candy and entertainment, if not philosophical depth, Minority Report (2002) finds Spielberg in top action form. With the desaturated photography lending a steely-gray cast to the deliriously high-tech activity, Spielberg neatly lays out the workings of the ominously potent Precrime outfit that sacrifices the freedom of the individual for the safety of all. The film really kicks into gear, however, once Tom Cruise's Precrime honcho John Anderton is fingered by the super-psychic Pre-Cogs and, true to Cruise form, runs. The pure cinematic pleasure in Cruise's adrenaline-rush escape from spirited G-man nemesis Colin Farrell through Washington D.C. is matched by his arrival at the lushly verdant mutant paradise cultivated by Precrime godmother Lois Smith; the rampant product placement throughout becomes a witty comment on the perils of bureaucratic omniscience. Spielberg sabotages the ending, however, by refusing to let the audience get a thought in edgewise. After over-explaining the paradoxes of Precrime, Spielberg and company negate the prior 90 minutes of sublimely bleak sci-fi noir by giving Cruise his obligatory star hero moment before ending on a vision of bucolic freedom strikingly at odds with the story's apparent implications. Sleekly crafted nevertheless, Minority Report is still an engaging walk on the safely Spielbergian dark side.