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Tom Cruise is policing the future, in Minority Report, an all-action thriller, based on a short story by Bladerunner author Philip K. Dick.

Minority Report

Based on the short story by Philip K. Dick, Minority Report is set in Washington, D.C., in the year 2054, where murder has been eliminated. The future is seen, and the guilty punished, before the crime has ever been committed.

From a nexus deep within the Justice Department’s elite Pre-Crime unit, all the evidence to convict – from imagery alluding to the time, place and other details – is seen by 'Pre-Cogs', three psychic beings, whose visions of murder have never been wrong.

It is the nation’s most advanced crime force, a perfect system. And no one works harder for Pre-Crime than its top man, Chief John Anderton (Tom Cruise). Destroyed by a tragic loss, Anderton has thrown all of his passion into a system that could potentially spare thousands of people from the tragedy he lived through. Six years later, the coming vote to take it national has only fueled his conviction that Pre-Crime works.

Anderton has no reason to doubt it ... until he becomes its number one suspect. As the head of the unit, Anderton is the first to see the images as they flow from the liquid suspension chamber, where the Pre-Cogs dream of murder. The scene is unfamiliar, the faces unknown to him, but this time, the killer’s identity is clear – John Anderton will murder a total stranger in less than 36 hours.

Now, with his own unit tracking his every move, led by his rival, Danny Witwer (Colin Farrell), Anderton must go below the radar of the state-of-the-art automated city, where every step you take is monitored, every car you drive can be controlled by someone else, and your own eyes tell the world who you are, what you want and where you’re going. Because you can’t hide, everybody runs.

With no way to defend himself against the charge of Pre-Crime, John must trace the roots of what brought him here, and uncover the truth behind the question he has spent the past six years working to eliminate: Is it possible for the Pre-Cogs to be wrong?

Did You Know That?...

...Tom Cruise was born as Tom Cruise Mapother IV, in 1962 in Syracuse, New York, and had ambitions to become a priest as a teenager.

...the only son (among four children) of nomadic parents, the young Cruise spent his boyhood on the move, and by the time he was 14, he had attended 15 different schools in the US, and Canada. He finally settled in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, with his mother, and her new husband.

...in high school Cruise developed an interest in acting, and abandoned his plans of becoming a priest, dropped out of school, and at age 18 headed for New York, and a possible acting career.

...he made his film debut with a small part in Endless Love (1981).

...within another five years, Cruise was starring in some of the top grossing films of the 1980s, including Top Gun (1986); Color of Money, Rain Man (1988) and Born on the Fourth of July (1989).

...by the 1990s, he was one of the highest paid actors in the world, earning an average $15 million per film, in such blockbuster hits as Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles (1994), Mission: Impossible (1996) and Jerry Maguire (1996) for which he received an Academy Award nomination, for best actor.

...in 1990, Cruise renounced his devout Catholic beliefs, and embraced The Church Of Scientology, claiming that Scientology teachings had cured him of the dyslexia that had plagued him all of his life.

Minority Report is out now on DVD.

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