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n. The ability to remember with great details; having photographic memory.

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Total Recall (1990 film)

Total Recall is a 1990 American science fiction action film directed by Paul Verhoeven, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rachel Ticotin, Sharon Stone, Ronny Cox and Michael Ironside. The film is loosely based on the Philip K. Dick story " We Can Remember It for You Wholesale". It tells the story of a construction worker who is having troubling dreams about Mars and a mysterious woman there. It was written by Ronald Shusett, Dan O'Bannon, Jon Povill, and Gary Goldman, and won a Special Achievement Academy Award for its visual effects. The original score composed by Jerry Goldsmith won the BMI Film Music Award.

The film was one of the most expensive films made at the time of its release, although estimates of its production budget vary and it is not certain whether it ever actually held the record.

Total Recall (Negative Approach album)

Total Recall is a 1992 compilation album by the American hardcore punk band Negative Approach. It includes everything released by the band at the time, which was "Lost Cause" from the compilation EP Process of Elimination, their 1982 self-titled EP and their 1983 album Tied Down. It also features previously unreleased live and demo tracks.

Total Recall (Luni Coleone album)

Total Recall is the third album released by rapper, Luni Coleone. It was released on March 14, 2000 for the Ideal Music Group and was produced Luni Coleone, Killa Tay, Lo-Key, Hugh Heff and Hollis. This was Luni Coleone's using that name, as he had used the name "Lunasicc" for his first two albums. Total Recall peaked at #33 on the Billboard's Independent Albums The album's title and cover pay homage to the movie of the same name.

Total Recall (2012 film)

Total Recall is a 2012 American science fiction action film directed by Len Wiseman. The screenplay by Kurt Wimmer and Mark Bomback was based on the 1990 film of the same name, which was itself inspired by the 1966 short story " We Can Remember It for You Wholesale" by Philip K. Dick. The film stars Colin Farrell, Kate Beckinsale, Jessica Biel, Bryan Cranston, Bokeem Woodbine, John Cho, and Bill Nighy. It centers upon an ordinary factory worker who accidentally discovers that his current life is a fabrication predicated upon false memories implanted into his brain by the government. Ensuing events leave him no room for doubt that his true identity is that of a highly trained secret agent. He then follows a trail of clues to gradually recover more suppressed memories and reassumes his original vocation with renewed dedication. Unlike the first film and the short story, the plot takes place on Earth rather than a trip to Mars and exhibits more political overtones. The film blends American and Asian influences, most notably in the settings and dominant populations of the two nation-states in the story: the United Federation of Britain (Western Europe) and the Colony (Australia).

The film was first announced in 2009 and was released in North America on August 3, 2012, grossing over $198 million worldwide. The film received negative reviews from both American and British critics. It received praise in certain areas such as its action sequences, but the film's lack of humor, emotional subtlety, and character development drew the most criticism.

Total Recall

Total Recall may refer to:

  • Total recall (memory)
Total Recall (game show)

Total Recall is an Australian game show aired on the Seven Network, hosted by Michael Pope, also host of Blockbusters. Originally broadcast in 1994-95. It was also repeated on PayTv channel Nickelodeon a few years later.

The show saw two competing schools play a memory game. On Mon-Thurs, Four kids from one of the schools would play and the person with the most points at the end of the day was declared winner. They were then asked to come back on Friday where the four winners that week would go school against school. Also trying to amass the most points during the week to win the schools prize at the end of the week

Total Recall (Family Guy)

"Total Recall" is the eighteenth episode of the eleventh season and the 206th overall episode of the animated comedy series Family Guy. It aired on Fox in the United States on April 28, 2013, and is written by Kristin Long and directed by Joseph Lee. In the episode, after Rupert is recalled, Stewie and Brian head on an adventure to reclaim Stewie's best friend. Meanwhile, due to illness, Peter is replaced by Lois in his bowling tournament. However, he begins to get annoyed by the brewing friendship between his wife and his buddies.

Usage examples of "total recall".

She's still in the semi-trance needed for total recall and, if you interrupt her, she'll lose what she still hasn't recorded.

Well, Johann you old bastard, if you and me are going to have to spend all eternity locked in this limbo we had better get to work on total recall of everything we ever did.

The words had come out automatically, without thought, but she stopped with her mouth still open, stricken with a moment of total recall, a visionary episode so vivid it was as though she lived it rather than merely remembering it.