Taglines: In the Future, not everyone is who they seem to be.
Gary Sinise plays Spencer Olham, a top-secret government weapons designer who is arrested by a clandestine government organization on suspicion of being a clone created by the hostile alien race wanting to take over Earth. He learns from the group’s leader, Major Hathaway (Vincent D’Onofrio) that the clones are perfect copies of the original human specimen (complete with memories), except they carry within their chest a small nuclear bomb. This cannot be detected without opening up the chest of the individual, in effect, killing them.
The organization captured an alien transmission that stated that Oldham’s clone was to assassinate the chancellor (Lindsay Crouse) when he came into contact with her, but Olham defends his humanity. He manages to escape the interrogation room and has various adventures on the lam until Olham and his wife (Madeleine Stowe) are trapped by government troops in a forest near an alien crash site. When one half of the cockpit is pulled away, revealing the murdered corpse of Olham’s real wife, the government troops turn their guns on the surprised clone to prevent her bomb from detonating.
However, when the other half of the cockpit is pulled back, revealing Olham’s corpse, the other Olham finally realizes he was indeed the clone the government thought he was. The words he utters on seeing the real Oldham’s corpse causes the detonation sequence to engage. Hathaway turns around at the last moment to see Oldham’s eyes turn black and the bomb in his chest explode, destroying everything within several miles and claiming the lives of thousands of people.
Impostor is a 2002 American science fiction film based upon the 1953 short story “Impostor” by Philip K. Dick. The film starred Gary Sinise, Madeleine Stowe, Vincent D’Onofrio, Tony Shalhoub, Mekhi Phiffer, Lindsay Crouse, Elizabeth Peña, Golden Brooks, Veena Bidasha and was directed by Gary Fleder.
The film earned a little over $6 million at the box office in the United States and Canada, with the estimated worldwide of over $8 million, thus making it a box office failure.
Impostor (2002)
Directed by: Gary Fleder
Starring: Gary Sinise, Madeleine Stowe, Vincent D’Onofrio, Tony Shalhoub, Mekhi Phiffer, Lindsay Crouse, Elizabeth Peña, Golden Brooks, Veena Bidasha
Screenplay by: Philip K. Dick, Scott Rosenberg, Caroline Case
Production Design by: Nelson Coates
Cinematography by: Nelson Coates
Film Editing by: Bob Ducsay, Armen Minasian
Costume Design by: Abigail Murray
Set Decoration byu: Anne D. McCulley
Art Direction by: Kevin Cozen
Makeup Department: Leslie Ann Anderson, Audrey L. Anzures, Robin Benjamin
Music by: Jeff Beal, Mark Isham
MPAA Rating: R for violence and some language.
Distributed by: Dimension Films
Release Date: January 4, 2002
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