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Freejack (1992)

Freejack poster
Directed by
Geoff Murphy
Genre
cyberpunk, action film, science fiction film, post-apocalyptic film, dystopian film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 45m
Rated
R
Rating
5.5 of 10 from 358 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

In the near future, a race car driver is pulled from the moment of his death and transported into a wealthy man's body for a consciousness transfer. He escapes and is hunted by a ruthless bounty hunter through a dystopian city.

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What happens

Freejack is a 1992 American science fiction film directed by Geoff Murphy and starring Emilio Estevez, Mick Jagger, Rene Russo, and Anthony Hopkins. The screenplay was written by Steven Pressfield, Ronald Shusett and Dan Gilroy, who adapted it from the 1959 science fiction novel Immortality, Inc. by Robert Sheckley. The film was produced by Morgan Creek and released by Warner Bros. in the United States on January 17, 1992. It received mostly negative reviews. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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