Scanners

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6.7IMDb Score
Released:1981-01-14
Duration:103 min
Country:Canada
Director:David Cronenberg
Actors:Stephen Lack, Jennifer O'Neill, Michael Ironside, Patrick McGoohan, Lawrence Dane
Production:Filmplan International, Canadian Film Development Corporation, Montreal Trust Company of Canada

Overview:

After a man with extraordinary, and frighteningly destructive, telepathic abilities is nabbed by agents from a mysterious rogue corporation, he discovers he is far from the only possessor of such strange powers. Some of the other “scanners” have their minds set on world domination, while others are trying to stop them.

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