
Country: United States
Language: English
Director: Ridley Scott
Writers: Hampton Fancher, David Webb Peoples, Philip K. Dick
Stars: Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young
Awards: Nominated for 2 Oscars, 13 wins & 19 nominations total
Duration: 1h 57m
In the early twenty-first century, the Tyrell Corporation, during what was called the Nexus phase, developed robots, called "replicants", that were supposed to aid society, the replicants which looked and acted like humans. When the superhuman generation Nexus 6 replicants, used for dangerous off-Earth endeavors, began a mutiny on an off-Earth colony, replicants became illegal on Earth. Police units, called "blade runners", have the job of destroying - or in their parlance "retiring" - any replicant that makes its way back to or created on Earth, with anyone convicted of aiding or assisting a replicant being sentenced to death.
A blade runner must pursue and terminate four replicants who stole a ship in space and have returned to Earth to find their creator.