Los Angeles, The Future: Tyrell Corp technologies run the city through their replicant program. When four replicants go rogue, a blade runner is tasked with tracking them down and in the process uncovers the dark truth about Tyrell's utopic technology.
Deckard (Harrison Ford) is forced by the police boss (M. Emmet Walsh) to continue his old job as a replicant hunter. His assignment: eliminate four escaped replicants from the colonies who have returned to Earth. In a future of high-tech possibility soured by urban and social decay, Deckard's hunt for the fugitive, murderous replicants leads him to a mystery woman whose secrets may undermine his soul. Adapted from Philip K. Dick's novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? [117 min; sci-fi, mystery; English]
"Blade Runner is a cold, bold, bizarre, and mesmerizing futuristic detective thriller that unites the British-born director of Alien with new box-office dynamo Harrison Ford for results that are as impressive as any film that's exploded through a projector." — Robert Osborne, The Hollywood Reporter
"This remains a truly extraordinary, densely imagined version of both the future and the present, with a look and taste all its own." — Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
"Philip K. Dick's frequent exploration of perceived realities that begin to breakdown upon inspection, and thus define the fragile, shattered nature of existence and humanity, is brought to awe-inspiring life through Blade Runner." — Brian Eggert, Deep Focus Review
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