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Total Recall

Get ready for the ride of your life.

7.3(6,759)19901h 53m23

Construction worker Douglas Quaid's obsession with the planet Mars leads him to visit Rekall, a virtual vacation company that manufactures memories. When something goes wrong during Quaid's memory implant procedure, his life turns upside down, leading him to question what is reality and what isn't.

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Status
Released
Budget
$65M
Box office
$261.3M
Language
English
  • double life
  • planet mars
  • based on novel or book
  • oxygen
  • resistance
  • telepathy
  • falsely accused
  • dystopia
  • villainess
  • mutant
  • hologram
  • space travel

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United States of America

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Release dates

  • IndiaIN

    • Theatrical10 Dec 1990
  • United StatesUS

    • PremiereRLos Angeles, California31 May 1990
    • TheatricalR1 Jun 1990
    • PhysicalRDVD18 Jun 1997
  • United KingdomGB

    • Theatrical1827 Jul 1990
  • AustraliaAU

    • PhysicalR 18+4 Jun 1990
    • TheatricalM6 Dec 1990
    • PhysicalMA 15+5 Dec 2005
  • ArgentinaAR

    • Theatrical15 Nov 1990
  • BrazilBR

    • Theatrical163 Oct 1990
  • CzechiaCZ

    • Theatrical (limited)Digitally restored23 Jul 2021
    • Theatrical15+35th anniversary31 Jul 2025
  • DenmarkDK

    • Theatrical2 Nov 1990
  • El SalvadorSV

    • Theatrical9 Feb 1991
  • FinlandFI

    • TheatricalK-1614 Dec 1990
  • FranceFR

    • Theatrical1217 Oct 1990
    • PhysicalDVD16 Dec 1998
    • PhysicalBlu-ray29 Aug 2006
    • Digital / OTT1 Jan 2013
    • TV12Canal+ Grand Écran13 Dec 2025
    • TV12RTL913 Jun 2026
  • GermanyDE

    • Theatrical1826 Jul 1990
    • Theatrical161 Mar 2022

Frequently asked questions

Total Recall was released on 1 June 1990.

Audience reviews

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  • G

    Gimly

    3/19/2018

    8/10

    Intrinsically Verhoeven, _Total Recall_ is a film from my youth that I probably shouldn't have been watching quite as early as I did, but that I still love to this day. All the practical effects, exquisite violence & nudity and provocative sci-fi themes you've come to expect from this sort of thing, but twists and turns that start just five minutes in and keep running all the way through to the end. _Total Recall_ is…

  • J

    John Chard

    2/14/2019

    8/10

    Verhoeven bonkers adaptation of a P. K. Dick story. Doug Quaid keeps getting recurring dreams about a visit to Mars. In spite of his friends warnings, he decides to have a memory implanted Mars holiday. But during the implantation he remembers being a secret agent who is fighting evil Mars boss Vilos Cohaagen. Things are about to go very intergalactic bonkers indeed. Total Recall finds director Paul Verhoeven …

  • C

    CinemaSerf

    5/29/2022

    7/10

    Aside from maybe "Predator" (1987) this is probably my favourite outing from Arnold Schwarzenegger. He ("Quaid") goes off to have an harmless implant of memories from an holiday on Mars (that he hasn't had) only to find that his life starts to unwind very quickly afterwards. Even his girlfriend "Lori" (Sharon Stone) becomes a would-be assassin and he is soon under attack from just about every other quarter too. Why? …

  • G

    GenerationofSwine

    1/12/2023

    10/10

    Man, it's almost like Saw with it's torture-porn thing... only the over-the-top gore actually fits beautifully into the story in the most entertaining way possible, even when it is so 80s cheese that it's almost comical. But the ultra-violence is part of the fun of these types of films. It's part of the reason why people love them... and it's over-the-top in a way that can't really be done today. It's also pret…

  • K

    kevin2019

    11/28/2025

    8/10

    "Total Recall" is an extraordinarily violent and gory extravaganza, but even though it is quite needlessly graphic in some places - Quaid's, Melina's, and Cohaagan's suffocation after they are exposed to the poisonious Martian atmosphere; the deaths of innocent bystanders caught in the crossfire during scenes of gunplay; the severing of limbs; the stabbings and impalings and so forth - the film is admittedly staged s…

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