Minority Report (2002)

Director:

Steven Spielberg

Writers (WGA):

Philip K. Dick (short story)
Scott Frank (screenplay) ...

Release Date:

21 June 2002 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Crime | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller

Tagline:

What would you do if you were accused of a murder, you had not committed... yet?

Plot:

In the future, criminals are caught before the crimes they commit, but one of the officers in the special unit is accused of one such crime and sets out to prove his innocence.

Plot Keywords:

Seeing The Future | Wristwatch | Bathroom | Bubble | Swimming Pool

Awards:

Nominated for Oscar. Another 16 wins & 47 nominations

US TV Schedule:

Sun. July 20

9:00 AM

TNT

Cast

Tom Cruise	...	Chief John Anderton
Max von Sydow	...	Director Lamar Burgess
Steve Harris	...	Jad
Neal McDonough	...	Fletcher
Patrick Kilpatrick	...	Knott
Jessica Capshaw	...	Evanna
Richard Coca	...	Pre-Crime Cop
Keith Campbell	...	Pre-Crime Cop
Kirk B.R. Woller	...	Pre-Crime Cop
Klea Scott	...	Pre-Crime Cop
Frank Grillo	...	Pre-Crime Cop
Anna Maria Horsford	...	Casey
Sarah Simmons	...	Lamar Burgess' Secretary
Eugene Osment	...	Jad's Technician
James Henderson	...	Office Worker

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for violence, brief language, some sexuality and drug content.

Runtime:

145 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English | Swedish

Colour:

Colour

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

DTS-ES | SDDS | Dolby Digital EX

Certification:

Brazil:14 | Indonesia:Dewasa | Malaysia:U | Canada:14A (Alberta/British Columbia) | Iceland:16 (video rating) | Canada:AA (Ontario) (original rating) | Canada:13+ (Quebec) | Canada:14 (Nova Scotia) | Canada:PG (Ontario) (video rating) (2005) | Iceland:14 | New Zealand:M | Canada:PA (Manitoba) | Argentina:13 | Australia:M | Austria:14 (Niederösterreich) | Austria:16 (Steiermark) | Finland:K-15 | France:U | Germany:12 | India:A | Ireland:15 (video rating) | Israel:PG | Netherlands:12 | Norway:15 | Philippines:PG-13 | Singapore:NC-16 | Singapore:PG (censored version) | South Korea:15 | Spain:13 | Sweden:15 | Switzerland:12 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:12 (canton of Vaud) | Switzerland:12 (canton of the Grisons) | UK:12 | USA:PG-13 (certificate #39066) | Ireland:12PG (original rating)

Filming Locations:

Ambassador Hotel - 3400 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation

Trivia:

Cameo: [Cameron Crowe]Tom Cruise's director from Jerry Maguire (1996) and Vanilla Sky (2001) appears as a commuter on the train who looks at Anderton over the top of his newspaper and recognizes him.

Goofs:

Continuity: After Anderton has attacked Crow in the hotel room, the position of the broken glass in the mirror changes between shots.

Quotes:

John Anderton: What does your father think about your line of work?
Danny Witwer: I don't know. He was shot and killed when I was 15 outside a pub in Ireland. I know how it is to lose somebody close to you John. Of course, nothing's like the loss of a child, I don't have any children of my own, so I can only imagine what that must've been like. To lose your son. The both of us are here to make sure that what happened to us never happens to anybdy else.
John Anderton: Yeah, why don't you cut the cute act and tell me why is it you're lookinf for?
[...]

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Take Off: Making 'The Terminal' (2004) (V)

Soundtrack:

Menuet, Allegro ma non troppo

Underrated & A Film To Think About

This gets high marks for being an involving film that, despite a long length of almost two- and-a-half hours, keeps ones interest all the way. Being a Stephen Spielberg-directed film, it's no surprise that the photography is first-rate. This is nice-looking movie. Tom Cruise also was very good in here, not the obnoxious character he sometimes portrays (or did more often in his younger days.).

The film is a good mixture of action and suspense. Only the one chase scene was overdone with Rambo-like mentality of the good guys not getting hit when they should, and vice- versa.

The subject matter is interesting, too: what would do you (or the police) had very reliable information on crimes that were about to be committed, that you could prevent things from happening before they actually did?

I recognized two people in here who went on shortly thereafter to become recognizable in TV series: Kathryn Morris ("Cold Case") and Neal McDonough ("Boomtown"). Add Colin Farrell, Max Von Sydow, Samantha Morton and you have an interesting cast. I am of the opinion that this is one of Spielberg's underrated gems.