A Scanner Darkly, Waking Life

Based on a novel by Philip K. Dick, the sci-fi animated thriller A Scanner Darkly stars Keanu Reeves as an undercover detective in the government’s high-tech war against epidemic use of the hallucinogenic drug Substance D. Also with Robert Downey Jr., Woody Harrelson, and Winona Ryder. (100 mins, 35mm) Structured similarly to Linklater’s breakout film Slacker, the animated Waking Life is a dreamlike philosophical trip following Dazed and Confused lead Wiley Wiggins from scene to scene, and from one heady conversation to another. Celine and Jesse from the Before trilogy even make an appearance. (101 mins., 35mm)