When a man goes in to have virtual vacation memories of the planet Mars implanted in his mind, an unexpected and harrowing series of events forces him to go to the planet for real - or is he?
Douglas Quaid is haunted by a recurring dream about a journey to Mars. He hopes to find out more about this dream and buys a holiday at Rekall Inc. where they sell implanted memories. But something goes wrong with the memory implantation and he remembers being a secret agent fighting against the evil Mars administrator Cohaagen. Now the story really begins and it's a rollercoaster ride until the massive end of the movie.Written by
Harald Mayr <marvin@bike.augusta.de>
Patrick Swayze was signed to play Quaid when the movie began preproduction in Australia with Bruce Beresford as the director. However, early in preproduction, Dino De Laurentiis' company went bankrupt. After Arnold Schwarzenegger heard about this, he persuaded Carolco to buy the script for him. See more »
Goofs
When Lori tries to shoot Quaid at the first time, she misses and gets out of bullets, but then Quaid picks the same gun and uses and shoots a lot of people. See more »
Quotes
[first lines]
[Doug awakens from a nightmare]
Lori:
Doug? Honey, are you all right?
[nods]
Lori:
You were dreaming. Doug? Was it about Mars?
[nods]
Lori:
[kisses him]
Is that better?
Douglas Quaid:
Hmm.
Lori:
My poor baby. This is getting to be an obsession.
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In the German Version the "Johnny Cab"-Robot is making a loud belching sound instead of saying "Hell of a day, isn't it ?" This is possibly an in-joke by the dubbing studio. See more »
I first saw this in 1990 on a vhs i used to own.
Revisited it recently.
The three boobs n the comedic bulging eyes stayed with me from a tender young age.
The film has lots of action, some violent scenes, good one liners n Arnie's fine acting at display.
Surprisingly, this time he doesn't get to go shirtless or in a vest.
The mutants mayb disturbing for some viewers.
This was one of the earliest one to deal with a secret agent losing memory and all. Way before Bourne Identity and Jackie Chan's Who am I.
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I first saw this in 1990 on a vhs i used to own. Revisited it recently. The three boobs n the comedic bulging eyes stayed with me from a tender young age. The film has lots of action, some violent scenes, good one liners n Arnie's fine acting at display. Surprisingly, this time he doesn't get to go shirtless or in a vest. The mutants mayb disturbing for some viewers. This was one of the earliest one to deal with a secret agent losing memory and all. Way before Bourne Identity and Jackie Chan's Who am I.