Minority Report 🎥 2002 Movie Info

Plot Summary

The federal government plans to nationally implement the Washington, D.C., prototype “Precrime” police program, which has been operating for six years. Three clairvoyant humans receive psychic impressions of an impending homicide, and officers analyze their visions to determine the location and apprehend the perpetrator before the crime can occur. Would-be killers are placed in an electrically induced coma and held in a panopticon-like prison facility. Although Precrime has eliminated nearly all premeditated murders during its six-year existence, spontaneous crimes of passion called “red ball” killings still occur, giving the police only a short time to act.

Precrime chief John Anderton led a tactical unit to take down an angry husband who tried to kill his wife and lover after discovering their affair. Anderton joined the program after his six-year-old son Sean was abducted and never found. He has depression and is addicted to a drug called neuroin, and his wife Lara has left him. Department of Justice agent Danny Witwer audits the Precrime operation, intent on uncovering any flaws. Agatha, one of the precogs, experiences a flashback to a woman’s drowning as Anderton watches. Curious, he learns from the prison warden that the intended victim, Anne Lively, went missing shortly after her murder was prevented; however, he also discovers that Agatha’s vision of the crime is not on file.

Soon afterward, the precogs predict that Anderton will kill a man named Leo Crow, whom he has never met. Witwer later confronts Anderton about discovering his neuroin usage. Anderton flees, prompting Witwer to begin a manhunt while suspecting him of setting him up. Anderton visits Dr. Iris Hineman, a geneticist whose research led to the creation of Precrime, and learns that the precogs’ abilities are the result of brain damage in the womb caused by their parents’ addiction to early, impure forms of neuroin during pregnancy.

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