Minority Report (movie)
Minority Report is a 2002 science fiction film by Steven Spielberg, loosely based on the Philip K. Dick short story of the same name, and starring Tom Cruise, Max von Sydow, Samantha Morton, and Colin Farrell. It did middling-well at the box office.
Minority Report is an action-adventure film which looks at a future Washington, DC where murders are prevented before they happen due to three "precogs," semi-autistic individuals who can see the future. The film probes the morality of imprisoning individuals who have not committed any real crime, in an attempt to keep those crimes from happening. It also illustrates the potential abuses of such a system.
Minority Report is one of several movies based on stories by Dick.
Trivia
- In the portrayal of the future world, there were certain aspects of the imagined technology that gained some attention in the popular computer press. One sequence features Cruise's character using a futuristic graphical user interface, where several wall-sized screens were projected into space in front of a standing Cruise. Windows in the desktop were moved around by Cruise's character reaching into the projected image with a gloved hand and pushing them around.
- Hawthorne Plaza, a mall in Hawthorne, California where several scenes were filmed, is now abandoned.
