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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

86%

age 17+

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®

86%

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

Reviews

Reel Film Reviews

David Nusair

...devoid of even the most basic exposition designed to draw the viewer into its oddball futuristic landscape...

THX 1138 isn't a perfect sci-film but it is solidly entertaining and very unique.

Despite his scenes of bland horror, Lucas offers the 25th century as a arch, campy place, a conception not satiric enough to be accepted as comedy and not quite insightful enough to be taken seriously.

long and cumbersome

The empty space surrounding the vulnerable man emphasizes the exertion involved rather than the goal of escape: like the hologram who came to life because he wanted to, THX finally achieves his humanity by an assertion of will.

June 22, 2017

FULL REVIEW

Common Sense Media

age 17+

Common Sense Says

Slow sci-fi drama for die-hard Lucas fans only.

What Parents Need to Know

Parents need to know that this movie is a science-fiction film taking place in a future where the government controls human reproduction by banning sexual intercourse. A character watches naked male and female holograms dancing on a viewing console. Nude characters are also shown having sex. Robot cops prod men with poles that seem to electrically shock them. Physical skirmishes take place in the detention center among prisoners.