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THX 1138 Details

1970

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Starring	Robert Duvall, Donald Pleasence, Don Pedro Colley, Ian Wolfe
Director	George Lucas
Genres	Sci-Fi/Fantasy

THX 1138

In George Lucas's fascinating feature debut (based on his short student film), the young director creates a futuristic, underground world in which bald, dronelike workers are forced to take drugs to regulate their moods and stifle their libidos. THX 1138 (Robert Duvall) and his mate, LUH 3417 (Maggie McOmie), are factory workers, building the robotic police that keep order in their stark world. The soundtrack to their lives is a news service that continually lists information about factory accidents, as well as sex and drug crimes, ala George Orwell's 1984. There are electronic confessionals for workers to admit to mistakes they've made, and THX uses these outlets to express his unhappiness with his life. When LUH decides she and THX should stop taking their medication, their sense of humanity--and their desire and love for each other as a couple--is unleashed. It's not long, however, before they are imprisoned for this crime, and LUH learns then that she is pregnant. Separated, THX embarks on a journey to find her with the help of rebel SEN (Donald Pleasence) and hologram SRT (Don Pedro Colley), eventually attempting escape to the outside world. Combining complex editing and sound techniques with brilliantly subtle performances, THX 1138 is a little-known and vastly underrated sci-fi masterpiece. In an eerily prophetic moment, Lucas also predicts what people will be watching on TV in this future--news, sexually explicit films, and vapid comedy shows.

Starring	Robert Duvall, Donald Pleasence, Don Pedro Colley, Ian Wolfe, Maggie McOmie
Director	George Lucas
Studio	WARNER HOME VIDEO
Run time	DVD: 1 hr 22 mins Blu-ray: 1 hr 22 mins LOVEFiLM Instant: 1 hr 24 mins
Certificate	DVD LOVEFiLM Instant
Genres	Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Language	DVD: English Blu-ray: English LOVEFiLM Instant: English
Released	Production year: 1970 On LOVEFiLM Instant: LOVEFiLM Instant: 14 Mar 2012 To Rent: DVD: 27 Sep 2004 Blu-ray: 18 Oct 2010
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- Lucas' first film, a reworking of 1984 set in a computer-controlled future world where THX 1138 (Duvall) becomes an... read more on Time Out
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  Confusing tripe
  
  BORING BORING if Lucas hadn't made Star Wars, this would just be another load of pretentious tripe that no one would watch.
  
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  A lot of potential
  
  I have to admit that I viewed this film with some trepidation, given what was to come (both positive and negative.)
  
  As a debut full length film I ... read more »
  
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  The ruined masterpiece.
  
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  I guess I first saw this film in the late seventies, on late night TV.
  
  I'd never seen anything like it before, and few films have come close to ... read more »
  
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  Unusual si fi masterpiece
  
  An amazing thought provoking film. The characters live a stark and terrifyingly controlled life. This is an unusual Si Fi, up there with classics like Silent ... read more »
  
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