Impostor

Year:

2002

Duration:

95 min | 102 min (director's cut)

Genres:

Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller

IMDB rate:

6.2

Director:

Gary Fleder

Awards:

1 nomination

Details

Country: USA

Release Date: 2002-01-04

Filming Locations: Ambassador Hotel - 3400 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, California, USA

Earnings

Budget: $40,000,000

Opening Weekend: $3,022,523 (USA) (6 January 2002)

Gross: $6,114,237 (USA) (20 January 2002)

Cast

Actor

Character

Madeleine Stowe

Impostor

McCanna Anthony Sinise

Gary Sinise

Spencer Olham

Vincent D'Onofrio

Hathaway

Tony Shalhoub

Nelson Gittes

Tim Guinee

Dr. Carone

Mekhi Phifer

Cale

Gary Dourdan

Captain Burke

Lindsay Crouse

Chancellor

Elizabeth Peña

Midwife (as Elizabeth Pena)

Jason Beck

Gang Boy #2

Judy Jean Berns

Disgruntled Woman

Veena Bidasha

Frowning Nurse

Ellen Bradley

Nursing Mother

Shane Brolly

Lt. Burrows

Golden Brooks

Cale's Sister

Brian Brophy

Military Official

Burt Bulos

Newscaster #3

Scott Burkholder

Jack Stoller

Morty Coyle

Kissing Couple Man

Yvette Ocampo

Kissing Couple Woman (as Yvette Ocampo Coyle)

Cristos

Trooper #2

Una Damon

Local Newscaster

John Gatins

Patient-Soldier

Erica Gimpel

Newscaster #1

Bayani Ison

Squad Leader

Arly Jover

Newscaster #2

Elizabeth Kate

Maya Lookalike

JoNell Kennedy

Screaming Nurse (as Jonell Kennedy)

Ted King

RMR Operator

Rachel Luttrell

Scan Room Nurse

Malea McGuinness

Screaming Nurse

Ivana Milicevic

Gang girl

Diane Mizota

Receptionist

Melinda Renna

Reporter (as Melinda Ramos)

Adam Rodriguez

Trooper #1

Shannon Saint Ryan

Zoner

Kimberly Scott

Comms Officer

Greg Serand

Gang Boy #1

Giovanni Sirchia

Trooper #3

Maury Sterling

Comms Tech

Julie Vitz

Typox Child

Tracey Walter

Mr. Siegel

Tim Walsh

Arrested Engineer

Dwayne Wycoff

ESA Soldier

Kane Black

ESA Trooper (uncredited)

Rosalind Chao

Newscaster (uncredited)

DTeflon

ESA Soldier (uncredited)

Phil Hawn

Project Engineer (uncredited)

Griffin Howell

Project Engineer (uncredited)

Daren Palacio

ESA Soldier (uncredited)

Clarence Williams III

Secretary of Defense (uncredited)

Did you know?

Trivia

In the opening scene of the movie, footage of soldiers is taken from the 1998 film Starship Troopers and footage of a crater and other explosions is taken from the film Armageddon.

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Young Spencer Olham is played by Mac Sinise, Gary Sinise's son.

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A street scene is filmed in a courtyard of Cal Poly Pomona's administration building, the same one used for Jude Law's apartment building in Gattaca (1997). Several students and staff of Cal Poly Pomona were used as extras for this scene.

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Goofs

The bullet holes in Spencer's ESA jacket move around.

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When Captain Burke is explaining to Major Hathaway why they can't get a scan on the building, his lips don't match his words.

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After Spencer fires the Glock at the guards, though the gun is out of focus in the foreground, you can see that it has a round "stovepiped" (jammed sideways in the firing chamber and preventing the slide from closing). The gun is useless in this condition, yet Spencer continues to point it as if he were ready to fire.

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Quotes

Spencer Olham: There wasn't always a war with the Centauri, but in my lifetime it's all I've ever known. By the year 2050, six years after the first attack, we'd lost so many things. We'd lost the sky to electromagnetic domes, to shield the Earth from frequent air raids increasing in intensity. We'd lost the uncovered cities that the government forgot. We'd lost democracy to global leadership. We didn't expect peace anymore with the Centauri, because we came to see that peace wasn't their goal. Their goal was Earth. The ultimate land war, with no boundaries.

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Comms officer: I have the Secretary of Defense calling for you.

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Spencer Olham: I know you're afraid. I know what they told you. That some ship got through the Dome and landed somewhere outside the city. A cyborg destroyed my body. They were right in theory, but they made one crucial error.

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Faq

Q

is this in the same universe as Blade Runner(1982)?

A

Possibly becouse its the same author

Q

What are the differences between the PG-13 Version and the R-Rated Director's Cut?

A

Most of the time these extensions aren't significant: Quite often it's only a second or even less. Someone can be seen an instant longer or is waking longer to get across the street. To provide a better overview all those small additions are mentioned in small print and thus can be ignored more easily. Even the more important new story sequences seldomly are longer than 15 seconds. Those scenes are somewhat interesting but still do not really change the movie and should only be seen as a little extra. A detailed comparison between both versions with pictures can be found here.

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