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Film Title:  Impostor
Based on:  Impostor
Year Released:  2002
Director:  Gary Fleder
Cast Includes:  Gary Sinise, Madeleine Stowe, Vincent D'Onofrio, Tony Shalhoub

About the Film:
Spencer Olham (Gary Sinise) is a weapons designer suspected of being an alien robotic assassin. In 2079, Earth is at war with an alien planet, and its domed-cities are closely monitored by the Earth Security Agency. When an Earth Security Agent (Vincent D'Onofrio) begins chasing Olham, the trust between Olham and his wife (Madeleine Stowe) begins to unravel, leading to the films twist ending.

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Film Title:  Screamers
Based on:  Second Variety
Year Released:  1995
Director:  Christian Duguay
Cast Includes:  Peter Weller, Roy Dupuis, Jennifer Rubin

About the Film:
After a horrifying decade of war, scientists on a distant mining planet create the perfect weapon: a race of killing machines known as Screamers. Although their original purpose was to hunt and destroy enemy life forms, without human guidance the machines develop a new mission to destroy all life. Col. Hendricksson (Peter Weller), betrayed by politics and digusted by the horrors of war, decides to negotiate for peace on his own. But he and small band of soliders must cross a wasteland controlled by the machines in order to do so.

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Film Title:  Confessions d'un Barjo (Confessions of a Crap Artist)
Based on:  Confessions of a Crap Artist
Year Released:  1992
Director:  Jérôme Boivin
Cast Includes:   Richard Bohringer, Anne Brochet, Hippolyte Girardot

About the Film:
The narrator of the film is an odd character who records meaningless dialogs, trivia and bizarre musings regarding human behavior in a notebook. He is then forced to move in with his equally strange sister and her "reasonably normal" husband when his house burns. The husband is then forced to live with the bewildering antics of his brother-in-law and wife.



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