A Scanner Darkly (2006)

A SCANNER DARKLY  (2006)  ¢ ¢
    D: Richard Linklater
    Keanu Reeves, Robert Downey Jr., Woody Harrelson,
    Winona Ryder, Rory Cochrane, Melody Chase
Bobby, Woody and Keanu play slackers sharing a house, and Winona plays Keanu's girlfriend, a passive/aggressive nightmare who has a phobia about being touched. Also, one of the guys is a narc trying to track down the source of a drug called Substance D, which turns its users psychotic, and he's hooked on it himself. Linklater adapted this from a novel by Philip K. Dick, and it's all done in rotoscope, an animation process where live-action shots of the actors are transformed into cartoons. Technically, it's kind of cool, but the animation has a distancing effect, and eventually the movie just ends in what feels like the middle of the story. For those who care, it might the closest you'll ever get to seeing Winona Ryder topless on screen. She's rotoscoped, of course, but still.