Brainstorm

Year: 1983

Runtime: 106 min

Director: Douglas Trumbull

Sci-FiThriller

Researchers Lillian Reynolds and Michael Brace pioneer a revolutionary technology capable of recording and replaying human thoughts, emotions, and memories. As they delve deeper, the implications become increasingly unsettling, revealing the potential for misuse including government control and disturbing obsessions. The scientists must then grapple with the frightening possibility of facing their own mortality through the technology's unforeseen consequences.

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