TY - ADVS AU - Linklater,Richard AU - West,Palmer AU - Reeves,Keanu AU - Downey,Robert AU - Harrelson,Woody AU - Cochrane,Rory AU - Ryder,Winona AU - Kelly,Shane F. AU - Reynolds,Graham AU - Dick,Philip K. ED - Thousand Words (Firm) ED - Section Eight Ltd. ED - 3 Arts Entertainment (Firm) ED - Detour Filmproduction. ED - Warner Independent Pictures. ED - Warner Home Video (Firm) TI - A scanner darkly SN - 9781419802430 PY - 2006/// CY - Burbank, CA PB - Warner Home Video KW - Police KW - California KW - Los Angeles KW - Drama KW - Undercover operations KW - Multiple personality KW - Drug abuse KW - Drug dealers KW - Film adaptations KW - lcgft KW - Fiction films KW - Feature films KW - Animated films KW - Science fiction films KW - Detective and mystery films KW - Video recordings for the hearing impaired N1 - Based on the novel by Philip K. Dick; Originally produced as a motion picture in 2006; Special features: commentary by Keanu Reeves, writer/director Richard Linklater, producer Tommy Pallotta, author Jonathan Lethem and Philip K. Dick's daughter, Isa Dick Hackett -- One Summer in Austin: the story of filming 'A scanner darkly' -- The 'Weight of the line: animation tales -- theatrical trailer; For private home use only; Director of photography, Shane F. Kelly ; editor, Sandra Adair ; music, Graham Reynolds; Keanu Reeves, Robert Downey Jr., Woody Harrelson, Rory Cochrane, Winona Ryder, Sean Allen, Mitch Baker, Cliff Haby, Steven Chester Prince, Natasha Valdez; MPAA rating: R; for drug and sexual content, language and a brief violent image N2 - Set in a future world where America has lost the war on drugs, an L.A. undercover agents change their faces along with their identities. One officer's liberal ingestion of the drug "Substance D" causes him to develop a split personality, a notorious drug dealer. Along with his superior officers, the police set up an elaborate scheme to catch his drug dealer alter-ego and tear down his operation. Filmed using an animation technique called interpolated rotoscope, with animation over filmed sequences ER -