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First the computer. Then email, tiny cell phones and the Internet. Today, sexy robotic surrogates fill in for their less attractive human counterparts—regular people who no longer have to venture out into the real world themselves. In the world of Touchstone Pictures’ new sci-fi thriller “Surrogates,” has technology gone too far?
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Bruce Willis has demonstrated incredible versatility in a career that has included such diverse characterizations as the prizefighter in “Pulp Fiction,” the heroic time traveler in “12 Monkeys,” the compassionate child psychologist in “The Sixth Sense,” and his signature role, Detective John McClane, in the “Die Hard” series. Now, he plays a conflicted FBI agent in Touchstone Pictures’ new sci-fi thriller “Surrogates.”
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From Jonathan Mostow, director of the blockbuster “Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines” starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, comes the new sci-fi action-thriller “Surrogates.”

In the film, FBI agents (Bruce Willis and Radha Mitchell) investigate the mysterious murder of a college student linked to the man who helped create a high-tech surrogate phenomenon that allows people to purchase unflawed robotic versions of themselves – fit, good looking remotely controlled machines that ultimately assume their life roles – enabling people to experience life vicariously from the comfort and safety of their own homes.  The murder spawns a quest for answers:  in a world of masks, who’s real and who can you trust?
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