Surrogates

2009
12A
1h 29m

IMDb RATING

6.3/10

182K

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People are living their lives remotely from the safety of their own homes via robotic surrogates -- sexy, physically perfect mechanical representations of themselves. It's an ideal world where crime, pain, fear and consequences don't exist. When the first murder in years jolts this utopia, FBI agent Greer (Willis) discovers a vast conspiracy behind the surrogate phenomenon and must abandon his own surrogate, risking his life to unravel the mystery.

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Set in a futuristic world where humans live in isolation and interact through surrogate robots, a cop is forced to leave his home for the first time in years in order to investigate the murd... Read allSet in a futuristic world where humans live in isolation and interact through surrogate robots, a cop is forced to leave his home for the first time in years in order to investigate the murders of others' surrogates.Set in a futuristic world where humans live in isolation and interact through surrogate robots, a cop is forced to leave his home for the first time in years in order to investigate the murders of others' surrogates.

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IMDb RATING

6.3/10

182K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

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Trailer 2:49

Surrogates: Internet Trailer

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Surrogates: "News Reel"

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Surrogates: "News Reel"

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Surrogates: "No Accident"

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Surrogates: Losing Your Surrogate Featurette

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Surrogates: Crash Course

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Surrogates: I Will Not Bow

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Trivia
Because an uncooperative Bruce Willis refused to re-record several lines of dialogue when the movie was being restructured, a sound-alike voice-over actor had to be brought in.

Goofs
After Greer gets beaten up up by the Prophet's guards, his scars keep moving and changing severity for the rest of the movie.

Quotes
Older Canter: I changed the course of human history when I created surrogates. Now I'm going to change it back.
Tom Greer: You don't change what's been done. You and I know that better than most people.
Older Canter: My son's death will not have been in vain. Not if it heals mankind.
Tom Greer: Heals mankind? That's what you want to do? You want to kill everyone? That's going to heal mankind?
Older Canter: They're already dead. The died the minute they plugged into those machines.
Tom Greer: This is not the solution.
Older Canter: That's the way it is.
Tom Greer: That's not the way it is!
Older Canter: I had a vision. I was going to empower the powerless. To enable others like me to walk, to feel, to have a normal life.
Tom Greer: Listen to me! They're going to call you a murderer. That's what you're doing.
Older Canter: Surrogacy is a perversion. It's an addiction. And you have to kill the addict to kill the addiction.
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Older Canter: You're too late. What I've done can't be stopped. Now you're going to be a witness to the rebirth of humanity. That's my gift to you.

Connections
Featured in The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson: Episode #6.5 (2009)

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a fine performance by Bruce Willis

Finally saw this and I'm with the majority here... a solid 7/10 film.

This surprisingly compelling sci-fi film takes a while to set up its universe but delivers down the stretch. It's borderline whether they establish enough credibility so as to invest real emotion in to the characters and buy in to the premise. If you allow yourself to buy in to the bizarre concept of living life through android duplicates, then the film works on a few levels. It's somewhat weak on certain of those levels but raises interesting questions concerning the level of our technological dependency as we live our lives. The emotional aspect of this movie plays better thanks to a fine performance by Bruce Willis. His character's journey through this bizarre world is obviously the heart of the film and it's written and portrayed very well.