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Summary

Writer/director Richard Linklater and documentary stars Bill Resler and Devon Crosby Helms on this edition of Fresh Air. Richard Linklater's new film, A Scanner Darkly, is based on the book by Philip K. Dick. It's about drug addiction, paranoia, and surveillance. It stars Robert Downey Jr. and Keanu Reeves. Linklater is a self-taught director whose other films include Slacker, Dazed & Confused, and The School of Rock.

Then, from the documentary The Heart of the Game, Bill Resler and Devon Crosby Helms. The film follows the Roosevelt High School Roughriders, a Seattle-area girls basketball team, for six seasons. Bill Resler is the coach, a crafty, novice leader who came to the position from his job as a tax professor at the University of Washington. Helms is an emotional player, one of the Roughriders' stars. The Heart of the Game, released by Miramax, was a hit at the Toronto International Film Festival and is in theatres now. (Broadcast Date: July 10, 2006)

Enjoy the interview? Listen to Philip K. Dick's A Scanner Darkly, read by Paul Giamatti.

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