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Fortress
In the future, the inmates of a private underground prison are computer-controlled with cameras, dream readers, and devices that can cause pain or death. John and his illegally pregnant wife Karen are locked inside "The Fortress" but are determined to escape before the birth of their baby.
1992 · Directed by Stuart Gordon · 95 min · Action · Thriller · Science Fiction · 25 frames
Tagline
In the year 2017, one corporation is building a fortress for the ultimate takeover... your mind.
Crew
- Screenplay: Troy Neighbors, David Venable, Steven Feinberg, Terry Curtis Fox
- Cinematography: David Eggby
- Edited by: Tim Wellburn
- Production design: David Copping
- Produced by: John Flock, John Davis
Cast
- Christopher Lambert as John Henry Brennick
- Kurtwood Smith as Prison Director Poe
- Loryn Locklin as Karen B. Brennick
- Clifton Collins Jr. as Niño Gomez
- Jeffrey Combs as D-Day
- Lincoln Kilpatrick as Abraham
- Tom Towles as Stiggs
- Vernon Wells as Maddox
- Carolyn Purdy-Gordon as Zed-10
- Alan Zitner as Claustrophobic Prisoner
Production
- Country: Australia, United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: Village Roadshow Pictures, Davis Entertainment, Fortress Films, Dimension Films
- Budget: $8,000,000
- Box office: $6,739,141
- Themes: prison, future, escape, cyborg, married couple, dystopia, evil corporation, population control, action hero
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