The 6th Day
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| Directed by | Roger Spottiswoode |
| Produced by | Mike Medavoy Arnold Schwarzenegger Jon Davison |
| Written by | Cormac Wibberley Marianne Wibberley |
| Starring | Arnold Schwarzenegger Michael Rapaport Tony Goldwyn Michael Rooker Sarah Wynter and Robert Duvall |
| Distributed by | Columbia TriStar |
| Release date(s) | November 17, 2000 |
| Running time | 123 min. |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $82 million (estimated) |
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The 6th Day is a 2000 action movie starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. He plays a family man named Adam Gibson who is secretly cloned and must fight for his own survival while stopping the organization behind the cloning. The film was directed by Roger Spottiswoode.
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[edit] Cast & crew
- Arnold Schwarzenegger as Adam Gibson
- Michael Rapaport as Hank Morgan
- Tony Goldwyn as Michael Drucker
- Robert Duvall as Dr. Griffin Weir
- Wanda Cannon as Katherine Weir
- Taylor Anne Reid as Clara Gibson
- Michael Rooker as Robert Marshall
- Sarah Wynter as Talia Elsworth
- Wendy Crewson as Natalie Gibson
- Rodney Rowland as P. Wiley
- Colin Cunningham as Tripp
- Jennifer Gareis as Hank's Virtual Girlfriend
- Don McManus as RePet Salesman
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The title refers to the Biblical story of creation in Genesis, where on the sixth day, God created mankind, male and female, "in his own image". The metallic device seen in the movie poster is used to archive the mental state of a person, such as memories, habits etc. and subsequently transfer it to his or her clone. The recording is called the "cerebral syncording process". In addition to the Biblical references, there are also references to the Raelian concept of immortality through cloning and personality transfer.
Some aspects remind of Total Recall, a 1990 film in which Schwarzenegger plays an ordinary man who after visiting a memory-implanting shop wakes up confused in a taxi and ends up fighting a grand conspiracy.
The film purports to look at the ethics of human cloning, but it has been criticised for presenting a scenario that is nothing like the somatic cell nuclear transfer process that would actually be used in any form of human cloning (whether "therapeutic" or "reproductive"). In this film, the clone can imitate the appearance and personality (and adopt the life) of the original person - a scenario repeated in a more recent film, The Island, though it has no scientific basis.
On one interpretation, the film's title suggests that God is the creator and taker of life, and that the action of artificially creating a designed human being (i.e. imitating God's actions on the sixth day) must be a sin. Yet, both Adams survive and are shown as having a place in the world after the resolution of the narrative. Thus, the movie tends to confirm the thesis of some science fiction theorists that even superficially anti-technology science fiction tends to accommodate the very technology that it criticizes. Interestingly, the main character eventually seems to accept the use of cloning technology to recreate pets (which he originally resisted), again suggesting that such a technology as cloning may have a place if it is not misused.
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The 6th Day was released on video on the following dates:
| Release Date | Territory | Format | Notes |
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| March 27, 2001 | U.S. and Canada | DVD | Discontinued |
| August 27, 2002 | U.S. and Canada | VHS | |
| June 3, 2003 | U.S. and Canada | DVD | Special Edition |
| December 15, 2003 | U.S. and Canada | DVD | Schwarzenegger Action Pack: The 6th Day and Last Action Hero |
