Replicas [Includes Digital Copy] [Blu-ray/DVD]

Director: Jeffrey Nachmanoff, Stephen Hopkins Jeffrey Nachmanoff

Overview

A brilliant neuroscientist (Keanu Reeves) tragically loses his wife (Alice Eve) and family in a car accident. Grief stricken, he uses his research into the human mind to bring them back using an illegal procedure, all while going against the very laws of both man and science. Directed by Jeffrey Nachmanoff

Product Details

Release Date:	04/16/2019
UPC:	0031398294375
Original Release:	2018
Rating:	PG-13
Source:	LIONSGATE - 600000-AEC LGE
Region Code:	1
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Stereo, Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround]
Language:	English
Time:	1:47:00
Sales rank:	20,560

Special Features

Audio commentary with director Jeffrey Nachmanoff and executive producer James Dodson; Imprint Complete: the making of Replicas; Deleted scenes

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Keanu Reeves	Will Foster
Alice Eve	Mona
Thomas Middleditch	Ed Whittle
Emily Alyn Lind	Sophie
John Ortiz	Jones
Emjay Anthony	Matt Foster
Nyasha Hatendi	Scott
Aria Lyric Leabu	Zoe Foster
Amber Townsend	Lab Tech
Amber Rivera	Margaret
Jeffrey Holsman	Blue Eyes
Sunshine Logroño	Hector
Omar Cruz Soto	Lab Techs
Jean Pierre Prats	Lab Tech
Evelyn Dean- Omlseted	Actor
Ivan J. Torres Lasanta	Biotech Scientist: Bionine Lab
Jonathan Dwayne	Security Guard #2
Luis Gonzaga	Officer Pérez
Angela Alvarado	Ms. Barnes
Leo Álvarez	Security Guard #6
Evelyn Dean-Olmsted	Lab Tech
Jose Ojeda	Composer
Mark Kilian	Composer

Technical Credits

Stephen Hamel

Chad St. John

Jeffrey Nachmanoff	Director
Luis A. Riefkohl	Producer
Mark Gao	Producer
Stephen Hamel	Producer,Screenwriter
Keanu Reeves	Producer
Lorenzo Di Bonaventura	Producer
Chad St. John	Screenwriter,Executive Producer
Ara Keshishian	Executive Producer,Producer
Mark Borde	Executive Producer,Producer
Nik Bower	Executive Producer,Producer
Carolyn Folks	Executive Producer,Producer
Sebastian Boneta	Executive Producer,Producer
Tara Finegan	Executive Producer
Mark DeVitre	Executive Producer,Producer
Jennifer Lucas	Executive Producer,Producer
Bill Johnson	Executive Producer
Erik Howsam	Executive Producer,Producer
Gregory Ouanhon	Executive Producer,Producer
Chris Charalambous	Executive Producer,Producer
Jim Seibel	Executive Producer
Clark Peterson	Executive Producer
Byron Allen	Executive Producer,Producer
Deepak Nayar	Executive Producer,Producer
Walter Josten	Executive Producer,Producer
James Gibb	Executive Producer,Producer
James Dodson	Executive Producer
Martyn Zub	Sound/Sound Designer
Marisol Pesquera	Camera Operator
Sharon Bialy	Casting
Ines Mongil	Production Manager
Denes Pagan	Sound Editor
Raul Alcocer	Stunts
Stephen Hopkins	Director
Tara Moross	Executive Producer,Producer
Maxime Rémillard	Executive Producer,Producer
Richard Barner	Executive Producer,Producer
Chad Doher	Executive Producer,Producer
Terence Hill	Executive Producer,Producer
Joan Robbins	Executive Producer,Producer
Alastair Burlingham	Producer
Charlie Dombek	Producer
Ivan Gordin	Special Effects
Sergey Muravev	Special Effects
Charlie Bonilla	Special Effects
Michael Simon	Executive Producer
Sherry Thomas	Casting
Steve Zadrick	Executive Producer

Editorial Reviews

Replicas is a science fiction cloning film, and unintentional comedy gem. When a man suffers a car accident and watches his family die, he hides their deaths, so he can use his garage lab, and skills at cloning robot people to clone his entire family, because he loves them. What starts as a sloppy jaunt into well-charted waters ends up a glorious, unpredictable mess. Keanu Reeves (The Matrix, John Wick,) is at his best here, playing William Foster, a Frankenstein style scientist who is working on creating human life in a lab. He can also set up a pretty sweet lab in his garage, capable of anything his fancy workplace can do, and more. When he's not making hard choices about which of his family members should be resurrected, he's also a part time superhero vigilante capable of some amazing action sequences. William skirts the border between maniacal villain, and dark hero. Given Replicas' sci-fi genre, it could go either way, and in many instances it does, rather than choosing sides. Thomas Middleditch (The Final Girls, The Wolf of Wall Street,) plays Ed, William's high-ranking coworker at the lab, and friend who also assists him with his home experiments when Ed decides to heist some high-tech equipment. He provides intentionally comic relief through their witty banter, and a foil for the audience to learn more about how the experimentation process works. John Ortiz (Silver Linings Playbook, American Gangster,) plays Jones, William's antagonistic boss. He sees the possibility to monetize what Ed, and Thomas have managed to create for themselves in the garage lab. Drama ensues when he views the reincarnated family as property, and not people. Alice Eve (She's Out of My League, Star Trek: Into Darkness,) plays Mona, William's wife who dies in the car accident. She has a moment of self-realization that something is very wrong, and forces William to reveal the uncomfortable truth to her. She is presented with the grim reality that she is human in essence, but also a machine, along with her kids. Director Jeffrey Nachmanoff (Traitor, Homeland,) makes all the right choices here, in that he's in on the joke with Keanu Reeves, who also produced. Seeing that this film would not work as a serious, straightforward sci-fi thriller, the lines are delivered over the top, the cuts quick, and the movie a brief though thorough homage to bad sci-fi movies of the 90's like Johnny Mnemonic, also starring Keanu Reeves. Writer Chad St. John (London Has Fallen, Peppermint,) was faced with some tough choices himself: with advanced science this close to happening in real life, and way too complicated for people without an advanced degree to understand, how could he present it in a palatable way? Instead of limiting how much action, or science was needed, he just threw all the genre concepts into a mixing bag and shook it up with a healthy dose of chase sequences, philosophy, and took out any meaningful questions about life that might distract from the spectacle.