Blade runner [DVD video]

Los Angeles, 2019: Rick Deckard of the LAPD's Blade Runner unit prowls the steel & microchip jungle of the 21st century. His job is to track down and eliminate assumed humanoids known as 'replicants.' Replicants were declared illegal after a bloody mutiny on an Off-World Colony, and are to be terminated upon detection. He wants to get out of the force, but is drawn back in when 6 "skin jobs, " the slang for replicants, hijack a ship back to Earth. The city that Deckard must search for his prey is a huge, sprawling, bleak vision of the future.

General Note:

Based on the novel "Do androids dream of electric sheep?" by Philip K. Dick.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1982.

Special features: Introduction by director Ridley Scott; three filmmaker commentaries; Ridley Scott; Executive Producer/Co-Screenwriter Hampton Francher, Co-Screenwriter David Peoples, Producer Michael Deeley and Production Executive Katherine Haber; Visual Futurist Syd Mead, Production Designer Lawrence G. Paull, Art Director David L. Snyder and Special Photographic Effects Supervisors Douglas Trumbull, Richard Yuricich and David Dryer.

Performers:

Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, Edward James Olmos.

Technical Details:

DVD, region 1; widescreen presentation; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround, digitally restored and remastered.

Corporate Subject:

Los Angeles (Calif.). Police Department -- Drama.

Subject Term:

Police -- California -- Los Angeles -- Drama.

Cyborgs -- California -- Los Angeles -- Drama.

Androids -- California -- Los Angeles -- Drama.

Geographic Term:

Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Drama.