THE 6TH DAY (2000)

MORGAN'S RATING

A world in the very near future where cattle, fish and even the family pet can be cloned. But cloning humans is illegal. That is until family man Adam Gibson shockingly discovers that he has been replaced by one. Taken from his family and plunged into a sister world he doesn't understand, Gibson must not only save himself from the assassins who must now destroy him to protect their secret, but uncover who and what is behind the horrible things happening to him.

Arnold Schwarzenegger (Adam Gibson), Michael Rapaport (Hank Morgan), Tony Goldwyn (Michael Drucker), Michael Rooker (Robert Marshall), Sarah Wynter (Talia Elsworth), Wendy Crewson (Natalie Gibson), Rodney Rowland (Wiley), Terry Crews (Vincent), Ken Pogue (Speaker Day), Colin Cunningham (Tripp), Robert Duvall (Dr. Griffin Weir), Wanda Cannon (Katherine Weir), Taylor Anne Reid (Clara Gibson), Jennifer Gareis (Virtual Girlfriend), Don McManus (RePet Salesman), Steve Bacic (Johnny Phoenix), Christopher Lawford (Police Lieutenant), Mark Brandon (RePet Spokesman), Ellie Harvie (Rosie), Don S. Davis (Cardinal de la Jolla), Peter Kent (Duty Officer).

ARE YOU WHO YOU THINK YOUR ARE?

PRODUCTION INFORMATION

DIRECTOR: Roger Spottiswoode (Tomorrow Never Dies).

WRITERS: Daniel Petrie Jr., John Sayles, Cormac Wibberley and Marianne Wibberley.

PRODUCERS: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Mike Medavoy and John Davison.

ASSOCIATE PRODUCER: David Letham.

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: David Coatsworth, Cormac Wibberley and Marianne Wibberley.

CO-EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Daniel Petrie Jr.

ORIGINAL MUSIC: Trevor Rabin and Michael Wandmacher (songs).

DISTRIBUTOR: Columbia Pictures

QUOTES

Adam Gibson: Doesn't anybody die any more?

Adam Gibson: I want my life back.

Michael Drucker: We won't have to lose our Mozarts. We won't have to lose our Martin Luther Kings. We will have finally conquered death.

FACTS

RELEASE DATE: November 17th, 2000 (USA) BOX OFFICE OPENING: $13.0 million (USA) BOX OFFICE RESULT: $34.5 million (USA) BUDGET: $82 million (USA) SHOOTING DATES: December 1999 -- May 2000 - The name Adam is a reference to the story of Genesis, as is the title (God created man on the 6th day). - During the film's harrowing underwater climax, Schwarzenegger narrowly escaped death when he became disoriented and swam in the wrong direction, ending up under a platform. Luckily, he was brought to safety by a nearby scuba diver on the set. - Rodney Rowland previously starred in "Space: Above and Beyond" (1995) as Cooper Hawkes, the product of a genetic engineering process: an "in vitro." - When the Virtual Psychiatrist comes up in the police station, he asks Gibson about a turtle in the desert, a reference to the human/replicant test in Blade Runner. - Adam Gibson says: "Let's stop philosophizing," while holding a cat in a box in his hands. This is a reference to the famous Schroedinger's Cat paradox which says that quantum mechanical effects should permit a cat in a sealed box to be both dead and alive at once. - Nominated for three 2001 Razzie Awards for Worst Actor, Worst Supporting Actor (Schwarzenegger) and Worst On-Screen Couple (both Schwarzenegger's).

Michael Drucker: It costs me $1.2 million to bring you guys back. Try to be worth the money.

Wiley: I've been killed twice in two hours. Marshall: We've all been killed before.

Talia: Kinda takes the fun out of being alive, doesn't it?

Adam Gibson: I might be back.

Adam Gibson: When I told you to "go screw yourself" I didn't mean for you to take it literally.

Adam Gibson: This time stay dead.

Adam Gibson: My daughter's inside. I don't want her exposed to any graphic violence, she gets enough from the media.

CRITICAL COMMENTS

"A well-crafted entertainment containing enough ideas to qualify it as science fiction and not just as a futurist thriller." -- Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun Times

"A fast-action, well-paced, clever sci-fi thriller that should go far toward erasing the bad aftertaste caused by last year's End of Days." -- Paul Clinton, CNN

"For Arnold's career, at least, it's not quite the end of days." -- Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly

"The best Schwarzenegger movie in years." -- Jay Carr, Boston Globe

"This movie knows how to entertain." -- Bob Graham, San Francisco Chronicle

"Though the filmmakers deliver a 'man should not play God' message, the movie's unsettling brand of gallows humor makes it hard to take such pronouncements seriously." -- Sean Means, Film.Com

"Although it tries to brew up a potion of chromosomal magic, this baby feels as old-timey as Geritol." -- Rita Kempley, Washington Post