07 Jul 2006
A Scanner Darkly
An undercover cop in a not-too-distant future becomes involved with a dangerous new drug and begins to lose his own identity as a result.
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"Video by Bill Etra, early to mid 1970s, perhaps at the WNET TV Lab?"
1973
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