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| - The film depicts a dystopian Los Angeles in November 2019 in which Maggie Carpenter (Roberts) is a spirited and attractive young woman who has left a series of fiances in almost identical fashion, earning her the nickname "The Replicant". Rick Deckard (Ford) is a burnt-out expert "Bride Hunter" who reluctantly agrees to take on one more assignment: to track down and kill Maggie. As the film progresses, Deckard finds himself falling in love with Maggie, but he has competition from two unlikely sources! Reporter Graham "Ike" Eisenhower (Richard Gere) is also 'hunting' Maggie, for an interview, and eventually the two find themselves becoming more and more attracted to each other. While Maggie is in the middle of rehearsing her latest wedding, to an android named Roy Batty (Hauer), Ike is asked to help her rehearse walking down the aisle. When Ike and Maggie "practice" the kiss right in front of Batty, they admit their true feelings for one another. As a result, Batty punches Ike in the face before using his rocket boosters to fly out of the church. Soon after, since a wedding is already set to take place, Ike and Maggie agree to get married. But on the day of the wedding Maggie gets cold feet, and leaves Ike, too, standing at the altar. As she rides away on a flying FedEx truck, her face a mixture of regret and relief, Deckard enters the vehicle, having secretly clung to the roof of the truck. He accuses Maggie of not being human, and when she attempts to prove her humanity by showing him a family photo, Deckard tells her that her most human traits are only implants. She drops the photograph and jumps off the truck in tears. Later that evening Deckard is searching for Maggie in a crowd when he is spotted by Leon, the jilted lover of Zhora, the last runaway bride he 'retired'. Leon attacks Deckard but Maggie intervenes, killing Leon with Deckard's gun. The two return to Deckard's apartment, where he promises not to hunt her. Later they share an intimate moment; Maggie then tries to leave, but Deckard seduces her. The story jumps forward several years, and we see Maggie trying to discover herself, putting her lighting designs up for sale in dystopian Los Angeles. She shows up unexpectedly at Ike's apartment one night where he finds her making friends with his cat, Italics. Maggie then explains that she's been running because every guy she was engaged to was only attracted to the idea she had created for them rather than the real her. She says that at her wedding ceremony with Ike she was simply freaked out at the size of the crowd and the possibility of encountering Roy's angry robot in-laws. She "turns in" her running shoes just before proposing to Ike. Deckard, also apparently jilted by Maggie years ago, arrives at the apartment and kills Ike, but just as he is about to approach Maggie he is in turn ambushed by Batty. Batty fights Deckard, and after the latter flees to the top of the building, he slips and is left hanging from a rooftop. Just as he is about to fall, Batty saves him. It becomes apparent that Batty's batteries are running out, and in his dying moments, he delivers a monologue on how his memories of his dream wedding are about to disappear: “I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Napkins in the shape of swans. I watched sea-breams glitter on the banquet table next to a five tier wedding cake. All those moments will be lost in time like... tears in rain.” ~ Batty's final monologue Deckard's partner Gaff arrives and, referring to Maggie, shouts to Deckard "It's too bad she won't live, but then again, who does?" Deckard returns to his apartment to find Maggie alive. Depending on the version, Deckard and Maggie either leave the apartment to face an uncertain future, or the two are married in a private ceremony on a hill, avoiding the big ceremonies that drove Maggie away in the past, and then ride away on horseback while everyone celebrates the fact that Maggie finally got married.
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