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Judge Dredd
In a dystopian future where Judges maintain law and order by acting as judge, jury, and executioner, Dredd fights to prove his innocence after being falsely accused of murder.
1995 · Directed by Danny Cannon · 96 min · Science Fiction · Action · Screenplay in the scene database · 15 frames
Tagline
In the future, one man is the law.
Plot
In the future, the Earth has become a deadly wasteland called the Cursed Earth. The few survivors live in overcrowded "Mega-Cities" plagued by rampant crime. To combat this, a new order of law enforcement has emerged: Judges, officers who act as police, jury, and executioner.
In 2139, in Mega-City One, a crime epidemic threatens to overwhelm the Judges' dwindling resources. The strict and feared Judge Dredd assists rookie Judge Hershey in violently quelling a block war. In the same raid, Dredd apprehends Fergie, a hacker and recent parolee, hiding in a city-owned robot. Dredd sentences him to five more years for property destruction. Hershey criticizes Dredd's unyielding approach to the law and his solitary nature. Dredd, in response, reveals that nine years earlier he judged and ordered the execution of his best friend and fellow Judge, Rico, for committing a massacre.
Meanwhile, Rico, secretly imprisoned at the Aspen Penal Colony, receives a covert message. He escapes and returns to Mega-City One. He retrieves his Judge uniform and Lawgiver gun, and reactivates a decommissioned ABC Warrior, a combat robot, to serve him. Disguised as Dredd, Rico shoots and kills reporter Vartis Hammond, a critic of Dredd and the Judges' violent law enforcement.
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Crew
- Screenplay: William Wisher, Steven E. de Souza
- Cinematography: Adrian Biddle
- Edited by: Harry Keramidas, Alex Mackie
- Music: Alan Silvestri
- Production design: Nigel Phelps
- Produced by: Charles Lippincott, Beau Marks, Tony Munafo, Susan Nicoletti
Cast
- Sylvester Stallone as Judge Joseph Dredd
- Diane Lane as Judge Hershey
- Armand Assante as Rico
- Rob Schneider as Herman 'Fergee' Ferguson
- Jürgen Prochnow as Judge Griffin
- Max von Sydow as Chief Justice Fargo
- Christopher Adamson as Mean Machine
- Joanna Miles as Judge Evelyn McGruder
- Joan Chen as Dr. Ilsa Hayden
- Balthazar Getty as Cadet Nathan Olmeyer
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: Cinergi Pictures, Pressman Film
- Budget: $90,000,000
- Box office: $113,493,481
- Themes: corruption, judge, dystopia, superhero, post-apocalyptic future, villain, trial, based on comic, cyberpunk, police officer
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