Minority Report
Release Date
2002
Film Synopsis
In a future where a special police unit is able to arrest murderers before they commit their crimes, an officer from that unit is himself accused of a future murder.
Based on a story by famed science fiction writer Philip K. Dick, Steven Spielberg's Minority Report is an action-detective thriller set in Washington D.C. in 2054, where police utilize a psychic technology to arrest and convict murderers before they commit their crime. Tom Cruise plays the head of this Precrime unit and is himself accused of the future murder of a man he hasn't even met.
Photo credit: 20th Century Fox
Past Programs
2022
AI: Prediction, trust, and data
Ragtag Cinema, Columbia, MO
The ethics of Artificial Intelligence
Coolidge Corner Theatre, Brookline, MA