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THX 1138
People in the future live in a totalitarian society. A technician named THX 1138 lives a mundane life between work and taking a controlled consumption of drugs that the government uses to make puppets out of people. As THX is without drugs for the first time he has feelings for a woman and they start a secret relationship.
1971 · Directed by George Lucas · 86 min · Science Fiction · Drama · 15 frames
Tagline
The Future is here.
Crew
- Screenplay: George Lucas, Walter Murch
- Cinematography: David Myers, Albert Kihn
- Edited by: George Lucas
- Music: Lalo Schifrin
- Produced by: Larry Sturhahn
Cast
- Robert Duvall as THX
- Donald Pleasence as SEN
- Don Pedro Colley as SRT
- Maggie McOmie as LUH
- Ian Wolfe as PTO
- Marshall Efron as TWA
- Sid Haig as NCH
- John Pearce as DWY
- Irene Cagen as IMM
- Gary Alan Marsh as CAM
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: Warner Bros. Pictures, American Zoetrope
- Budget: $777,000
- Box office: $2,437,000
- Themes: prison, mind control, future, computer, police, dystopia, drug addiction, hearing, totalitarian regime, phasing
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