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Visit the future where love is the ultimate crime. - THX 1138
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Title: THX 1138

Release Date: 11 Mar 1971

Runtime: 1h 26m

Genre: Science Fiction, Action, Drama

Director: American Zoetrope, Warner Bros. Pictures

Production Companies: American Zoetrope, Warner Bros. Pictures

Overview: 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.

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Ratings

Average Vote: 6.4 (954 votes)

Cast

  • THX: Robert Duvall
  • SEN: Donald Pleasence
  • SRT: Don Pedro Colley
  • LUH: Maggie McOmie
  • PTO: Ian Wolfe
  • TWA: Marshall Efron
  • NCH: Sid Haig
  • DWY: John Pearce
  • IMM: Irene Cagen
  • CAM: Gary Alan Marsh
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