Tödliche Erinnerungen

This film runs along the lines of A.I., and scientific experiments on Family and emotion. Greg Harrison and Beth Harper are involved in a devious plot to wipe away memory from all Human existence.Cicely Tyson and Kevin McCarthy are authority figures who try to use them as experimental "guinea Pigs" for research.The most interesting scene is when they return to a restaurant.Harrison is now suspicious of what goes on, when a waitress remembers them from a previous encounter.He tries to steal the disks and set their lives back in order. This movie shows that a person is not a machine; Man is more than skin, and "feeling" and "love" go way deeper.

So I got up this morning to get my little sister up and ready for school, I was just browsing through channels and stumbled upon this movie Duplicates. I thought from the beginning it was a low budget crappy film and was about to flip the channel, but something just hooked me and this movie kept me interested. Next time I looked at the clock it was almost an hour and a half later. So lets just say some low budgets are better then big budget films. Haha, I'm going to order this movie on ebay now! =) P.S. And it was pretty cool this was filmed right here where I live, according to the credits! This movie will next appear this Tuesday at 6 am on HBO, I suggest everyone check it out, even though it's a lot earlier then I like to get up!

I love movies from the 90s. They were generally well written and interesting. I love this genre of movies. Gregory Harrison always plays great roles. Without giving away the plot the story is believable and well written. I watched it when it was first aired on TV in 1993. Recently (2018), I tried to recall the name of the movie and it took me many searches before I was able to finally find it. It was so enjoyable to rewatch it after 25 years. It was on YouTube so I'm going to watch it again. A must see!

it's Kim Greist that i keep coming back to this film - she perfectly captures the distraught mother - then a woman in the glow of new love when she meets a man that she doesn't know is her husband

and that should tell you what type of scifi this is - its one which focuses on the human drama - it shifts the mystery that begins the story - and scifi elements that cap it off - into the background - at least - for a time

the scifi plot devices - when they are revealed - are pretty silly - they're merely functional in that they provide the motive - and can be tolerated if you think of in that way

formulaic - simplistic - but with Kim Greist to give it some authenticity - and heart

Co-writer/director Sandor Stern's sci-fi thriller has a great Michael Crichton-ish/Body Snatchers idea that is underdeveloped. Gregory Harrison and Kim Greist are parents of a missing boy who stumble across the Sandburg Research Institute where doctors Kevin McCarthy and Cicely Tyson are experimenting with memory transfer. The Institute's objective is to remove the criminal mind and replace it with a less-alienated healthier one, and McCarthy and Tyson have been using the bodies of derelicts and replacing their memories with those dying in hospitals. This doesn't explain how the missing boy has ended up in the Institute's community of new-memoried zombie-bodies, but McCarthy's bad haircut and the standover tactics of Lane Smith as the head of the Institute with undefined government connections and an assassin agenda, clues us into the forces that may stop McCarthy and Tyson from getting the Noble Peace prize. Since the parents provide a perceived threat to the Institute, both Harrison and Greist get the memory makeover, but since they are stupidly accomodated within close proximity to each other, we get a demonstration that the emotion of love does not depend upon the existence of memory, and they are soon at it again. What is attractive about the initial situation is the messy emotions displayed by Greist, and Stern's sense to focus the attention onto her and away from Harrison, who is the weaker actor and who's husband is reduced to a blubbering disbeliever. However after the couple's makeover, Stern errs in reducing Greist's role to that of the passive observor to Harrison's investigator, and by refocusing events on Harrison, Stern undermines his narrative. It's not just that Harrison doesn't possess enough natural charisma to carry a lead role, it's also that the made-over characters are essentially less interesting as people. A better actor than Harrison may have suggested the paranoia inherent in the material, and Stern falls back on Harrison's large forehead to represent his profession as a computer nerd, and also one who has been lobotimized. Perhaps because she realises how silly her role is, Tyson whispers her lines, and the scene where the couple are kidnapped in order to be made-over is handled badly by Stern - as if they offer no resistance to anyone that sticks syringes into their arms.