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Name: Thx 1138
Released: 1971-3-5
Cast: Robert Duvall, Donald Pleasence, Don Pedro Colley, Maggie McOmie, Ian Wolfe

Thx 1138

R
1h 28m
1971

84%

Before Star Wars, director George Lucas created this haunting vision of the future starring Academy Award winner Robert Duvall. In the 25th century, humans exist in a computer-controlled subterranean world where emotions are outlawed, mind-numbing drugs are mandated and no one has a name, only an alphanumeric designation. But one man, THX 1138 (Duvall), secretly resists his drug regimen and commits the cardinal crime against the state--he experiences love.

Director:

George Lucas

Producer:

Lawrence Sturhahn, Francis Ford Coppola

Writer:

George Lucas, Walter Murch

Cast:

Robert Duvall, Donald Pleasence, Don Pedro Colley, Maggie McOmie, Ian Wolfe, Sid Haig

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

84%

Critics Consensus: George Lucas' feature debut presents a spare, bleak, dystopian future, and features evocatively minimal set design and creepy sound effects.

Reviews

Cinefilia

Yasser Medina

It seems to me to be a lethargic and redundant debut film by Lucas, from which I get the feeling that there is almost no hook in his minimalist-looking social science-fiction dystopia. [Full review in Spanish]

THX beat the odds. Lucas beat the odds. They won the game. But as for the rest of us…? Work hard, increase production, prevent accidents. And be happy!

The obtuse script doesn't help, but it looks wonderful and Lucas conjures up a genuinely chilling air.

…the glitz and glamour of the CGI Phantom Menace add-ons featured in the director's cut of THX-1138 goes completely against everything that the aethetic of the original film supposedly stands for; it’s an absolute desecration of the text…

Lucas borrows from George Orwell’s novel '1984' and Fritz Lang’s... 'Metropolis' but it’s the vivid low-budget texture that makes the film so memorable, both visual and aural. The sound design by Walter Murch is something to hear.

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Additional Info

Genre:Sci-Fi, Drama, Thriller
Release Date:March 5, 1971
Languages:English
Captions:English
Audio Format:
Stereo

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