Paramount On Screen: Blade Runner [R]

Harrison Ford stars in this fascinating, dark vision of the near future as a policeman who tracks engineered humans—a Blade Runner. In the year 2019, the police department forces Rick Deckard (Ford) out of retirement to hunt four genetically engineered humans who have come to earth. Designed to do difficult, hazardous work, the manufactured humans are stronger, faster, and smarter than nonengineered humans. They feel no pain or remorse; they are almost indistinguishable from other humans … and they are killing people. Now Deckard must stop them before they kill again. Based on the novel Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick, it received Academy Award nominations for Best Art Direction-Set Decoration and Best Effects, Visual Effects.