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At the Walker project, a big group of youngsters are living in blissful
oblivion, only trying to improve themselves in sports & in obedience, while
all the time being watched via tv-cameras as well as their rather sinister
guides, who communicate with some mysterious controlling entity via their
headsets. The only aim the youngsters have in life is to one day be allowed to
go to Americ ... even if they have no clue what America might be, only that it
has something to do with the Walker project's central building. ... & of
course all the youngsters in the Walker projects are clones, who will
eventually be used as organ donors for their originals (which is of course what
going to America really means) ... One day though, clones Richard (Tim
Donnelly) & Lena (Paulette Breen) meet, which is something that shouldn't
have happened, since they belong to the very few clones that are not completely
braindead, & their accidental meeting starts both of them thinking, &
asking questions about the project that they better shouldn't ask, & at one
point, Richard figures the answers to all his questions are in the central
building, where all the clones go before going to America ... &
there, Ricahrd learns more than he wanted to learn, about what going to AMerica
really means (death), where the deposed clones are kept (a giant storeroom
crammed with bodybags, with many of the bodies having been Richard's friends),
& who his original is (philosopher Richard Knikght [David Hooks]). Being
chased thourhg the premises of the project, Richard realizes he has nothing to
lose & takes off for the real world to find Richard Knight, with the help
of investigative reporter Jake Noble (Keenan Wynn) ... who, to everyone's
surprise is honestly baffled to have a clone, but he promises to make some
investigations, starting with his brother Jeffrey (Peter Graves), a senator
running for president ... & much to his surprise, Jeffrey admits being
involved with the Walker project, as he wants to have a long life, a really
long life ... &, not quite as selfish as everyone has thought him to be, he
wants his brother to have an equally long lfe, hence the clone. Not at least
convinced by his brother's well-meaning (even if misguided), Richard Knight
rethinks his views on tghe whole cloning business, only his son Rick (James
Mantell) it seems is capable of seeing a human being behind Richard the clone
... but by now Richard has grown wary of the real world & wants to go back
to the Walker project ... & Rick agrees to take him there ... once there
though Richard has to realize Lena has in the meantime been lobotomized, &
by all chances, he will soon share her fate. Meanwhile, the agents of the
Walker projects, eager that their operations ill not be unveiled, have caught
up with Richard Knight, & kill him & his son, & somehow
during this operation, senator Jeff gets killed too. & investigative
reporter Jake Noble's house is blown up ... Later: Jeff, revived by the
wonders of cloning, is introduced by a man called Walker (Frank Ashmore) as the
candidate for president of the United States ... when he is
confronted with a video about the Walker project ... A quite
interesting mix of the horrors of cloning, a 1984-style world, and
conspiracy theories, years before they became a fashionable but essentially
empty commodity ... & somehow the movie even manages to not lose itself in
its message but stay entertaining throughout.
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