Limitless
Limitless is a 2011 American science-fiction thriller film directed by Neil Burger and written by Leslie Dixon. Loosely based on the 2001 novel The Dark Fields by Alan Glynn, the film stars Bradley Cooper, Abbie Cornish, Robert De Niro, Andrew Howard, and Anna Friel. The film follows Edward Morra, a struggling writer who is introduced to a drug called NZT-48, which gives him the ability to use his brain fully which helps him vastly improve his lifestyle. Limitless was released on March 18, 2011. Critical reviews were mixed to positive, and the film became a box-office success, grossing over $161 million on a budget of $27 million. A television series of the same name, covering events that take place after the film, debuted on September 22, 2015, but was cancelled after one season.
I didn't want to see anybody. Especially not my landlord's nasty young wife. - Valerie, Tuesday. - Look. Enough, OK? Steve handles the rent, so you can feed your crap to him. I suddenly had extra reason to get away from her. I had thoughtlessly ingested a substance. Like the rent's not low enough! I had gotten remarkably little information from Vernon about what this drug would do. You could even be a bike messenger and come up with that. Really. - What if it was a hallucinogen? - It's pathetic. Oh, my God. Listening to her rag... If I were tripping, I'd jump out a window. Hello? Are you listening to me? Do you get it? You are gonna be out on the streets! And then, I felt it.
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You're a creep, aren't you? You've been... You've been following me. - No, I just noticed the book. - You just saw the corner of it. How did you know that? - I'd seen it before. - Twelve years ago in college. Sitting on the couch of a TA I was trying to make, waiting for her to come back out of the bathroom, hoping she'd have a condom. Somehow my unconscious had served that up. A memory I had never even recorded. Or was it there the whole time and all I needed was the access? If you're writing a paper, that's not the book I'd use. Well, who asked you? Hastings has his oral history. I'd start there. Interesting point. Grammatically, this guy was an idiot, which sort of gives credence to the theory that one of the clerks he had fired actually wrote most of this guy's major opinions. You could Google the clerk's sons, they'd love to talk to you. Exonerate their dad. That'd give you something that no one else has... Information from the odd museum show, a half-read article, some PBS documentary... it was all bubbling up in my frontal lobes, mixing itself together into a sparkling cocktail of useful information.
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- What was this drug? - I couldn't stay messy on it, I hadn't had a cigarette in six hours, hadn't eaten, so... abstemious and tidy? What was this? A drug for people who wanted to be more anal retentive? I wasn't high, I wasn't wired. Just clear. I knew what I needed to do and how to do it.
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