Minority Report (film)

Minority Report
A man wearing a leather jacket stands in a running pose. A flag with the PreCrime insignia stands in the background. The image has a blue tint. Tom Cruise's name stands atop the poster, and the title, credits, and tagline "Everybody Runs June 21" are on the bottom.
Theatrical release poster
Directed bySteven Spielberg
Screenplay by
Based on"The Minority Report"
by Philip K. Dick
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyJanusz Kamiński
Edited byMichael Kahn
Music byJohn Williams
Production
companies
Distributed by20th Century Fox[a]
Release dates
  • June 19, 2002 (2002-06-19) (Ziegfeld Theatre)
  • June 21, 2002 (2002-06-21) (United States)
Running time
145 minutes[4]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$102 million[5]
Box office$358.4 million[5]

Minority Report is a 2002 American cyberpunk[6] action film[7] directed by Steven Spielberg, loosely based on Philip K. Dick's 1956 novella "The Minority Report". The film takes place in the Washington metropolitan area in 2054, in which a specialized police department—Precrime—apprehends criminals by use of foreknowledge provided by three psychics called "precogs". The cast stars Tom Cruise as Precrime chief John Anderton, Colin Farrell as Department of Justice agent Danny Witwer, Samantha Morton as precog Agatha Lively, and Max von Sydow as Precrime director Lamar Burgess. The film combines elements of tech noir, whodunit, thriller, and science fiction genres, as well as being a traditional chase film, since the main protagonist is accused of a crime he has not committed and becomes a fugitive.[8] Spielberg characterized the story as "fifty percent character and fifty percent very complicated storytelling with layers and layers of murder mystery and plot".[9]

The film was first optioned in 1992 as a sequel to another Dick adaptation, Total Recall (1990), with Arnold Schwarzenegger set to reprise his leading role. When the production company, Carolco Pictures, filed for bankruptcy, the project was reworked into a standalone project. Its development started in 1997 after Jon Cohen's script reached Spielberg and Cruise. Production suffered many delays due to Cruise's Mission: Impossible 2 and Spielberg's A.I. running over schedule, eventually starting in March 2001. During pre-production, Spielberg consulted numerous scientists in an attempt to present a more plausible future world than that seen in other science fiction films. Some of the film's portrayed technology has proven prescient.

Cruise and Spielberg's high-profile collaboration made Minority Report one of 2002's most anticipated films. It received positive reviews from critics and was a commercial success as 2002's tenth most-successful film worldwide, grossing over $358 million against a production budget of $102 million. It was nominated for several awards including an Academy Award nomination for Best Sound Editing. Of eleven Saturn Award nominations, the film won Best Science Fiction Film, Best Direction, Best Writing, and Best Supporting Actress. It has since been included in lists of the greatest science fiction films of all time.[10][11][12] A Minority Report tie-in video game and single-season television series followed its release.

  1. ^ "Minority Report (2002)". AFI Catalog of Feature Films. Retrieved August 12, 2018.
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  3. ^ "Minority Report (2002)". AFI Catalog of Feature Films. Retrieved August 12, 2018.
  4. ^ "Minority Report". British Board of Film Classification. Retrieved January 30, 2015.
  5. ^ a b "Minority Report (2002)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved December 8, 2010.
  6. ^ Amaral, Adriana. "Minority Report–rastreando as origens do cyberpunk." BOCC–Biblioteca Online de Ciências da Cominicação, Portugal (2003).
  7. ^ "Minority Report". British Board of Film Classification.
  8. ^ Buckland. pp. 193–5.
  9. ^ Cite error: The named reference Ko13 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  10. ^ "The 150 Greatest Science Fiction Movies of All Time". Rolling Stone. January 2024.
  11. ^ "Of course Spielberg's best shot ever is in his most underrated movie, 'Minority Report'". March 13, 2023.
  12. ^ "The 100 best sci-fi movies of all time". June 15, 2023.


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