The 6th Day

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The 6th Day
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
Robert Duvall
Music by Trevor Rabin
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 family man 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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Sometime in the future, Adam Gibson (Arnold Schwarzenegger) is a happily married man who has a wife named Natalie (Wendy Crewson) and a daughter named Clara (Taylor Anne Reid). Adam is a pilot and partner of the Double X Charter Company, a futuristic helicopter service that transports clients to snowy environs so they can ski, snowboard, or whatever they plan to do. While Adam's partner and best friend Hank Morgan (Michael Rapaport) enjoys the company of a virtual girlfriend, Adam is old-fashioned when it comes to technology outside of work.

But the big thing going is cloning -- if you have a pet that is sick or has died, you can have a company called RePet make a healthy clone of your pet with all of your pet's memories and behavior, and you have your pet back, but human cloning has been banned for years. Adam finds his stances on technology challenged when Clara wants a realistic looking and realistic behaving Sim-Pal doll.

There is a company called Replacement Technologies, which is a company designed to replenish the world's food supply through advanced cloning. Replacement Technologies is owned by multi-billionaire Michael Drucker (Tony Goldwyn), and his chief scientist is Griffin Weir (Robert Duvall).

Virtually unknown to anyone outside of the company, Replacement technologies has perfected the process of human cloning with the use of a system called syncording, where you have your eyes scanned and they get a disc copy of all of the information that's in your brain, and they use "blank" human bodies that they have stored.

That way, it takes about 2 hours to completely clone a human. Such is the case of the XFL's top quarterback, who is killed during a game, but is then cloned and brought back for the 2nd half of the game without anyone knowing.

Drucker hires Adam to take him up on the slopes, but requires that Adam and Hank first take a few tests for "insurance" reasons. They each give blood and do an eye test, but without knowing it, they are actually giving a DNA sample and a syncording of their brain.

It's Adam's birthday, so Hank poses as Adam and takes Drucker up so Adam can be at home with Natalie and Clara. Drucker is paranoid, out of fear of getting killed, and for a good reason. When they reach the summit, an anti-cloning activist is there waiting, and he kills everyone.

When the Gibson family dog dies, Adam goes to RePet and asks about getting the dog cloned for Clara. He decides instead to get her the Sim-Pal doll. When Adam gets home, he looks in the window and Adam's birthday party is going on, and in the middle is Adam blowing out his candles. This leads him to scream in angst the memorable line "There's someone in my house, eating my birthday cake, with my family, and it's not me!"

Drucker's right hand man Robert Marshall (Michael Rooker) and his cronies, Talia Elsworth (Sarah Wynter), Wiley (Rod Rowland) and Vincent (Terry Crews) show up and try to kill Adam, but he escapes and kills Marshall and his cronies.

It turns out that after Drucker was killed, he was cloned. He thought it was Adam that flew him and was also killed, so to put everything back in its original place, he had Adam cloned so nobody would know that Replacement Technologies is cloning humans.

Adam can't tell his family that he has been cloned, or his family will be killed. Marshall, Talia, Wiley, Vincent have been cloned and sent after Adam, and every time Adam kills them, they are cloned and sent after Adam again.

It turns out that Griffin's wife Katherine (Wanda Cannon) is a clone who is dying of cystic fibrosis. It also turns out that Drucker has implanted every human he has cloned with DNA that will make the human clones get a disease that will kill each clone within 1-5 years as a security measure.

Because of that, Griffin resigns from Replacement technologies, and decides that he doesn't want Katherine to be cloned again, and Katherine dies. Drucker, knowing that he needs Griffin, says fine, and he kills Griffin and says he will just clone Griffin and Katherine again so Replacement Technologies will be back to normal.

Drucker comes to believe that the only way to get Adam is to kidnap his Natalie and Clara, which is exactly what Drucker's henchmen do. The kidnapping takes place at the school that Clara goes to, and the two Adams finally meet each other. They team up, and they come up with a plan to rescue Natalie and Clara from Drucker.

Adam contacts Drucker and sets up a meeting at Drucker's headquarters. At the headquarters, Drucker explains to Adam that Adam is the clone and that the clone is actually the real Adam.

A shootout takes place and Drucker is killed but just before he dies, he clones himself again. During the cloning process, the cloned Adam disrupts everything and destroys the machine, making Drucker's clone incomplete. Drucker's clone is alive, just not fully formed yet.

Drucker's clone has a shootout with the two Adams, but during the battle he ends up jumping onto some ceiling windows when the real Adam tries to kill him with the Double X Charter helicopter's rotors, Drucker's clone falls though the glass, falling hundreds of stories to his death, then after Natalie and Clara are out of the building (the real Adam rescues them then comes back for his clone, arriving in time to help him fight off Drucker and escape), the two Adams blow up the building, killing the rest of Drucker's henchmen and all of the cloning equipment is blown up too.

Later, the cloned Adam says goodbye to the real Adam and his family, because the cloned Adam is using one of the Double X Charter Company helicopters to start his own business in Argentina.

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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".

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, however, he can only do that after using the aforementioned machine.

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The 6th Day was released on video on the following dates:

Release Date Territory Format Notes
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

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