Fahrenheit 451 (1966)
Directors: François Truffaut
Actors: Oskar Werner, Julie Christie, Cyril Cusack
Run Time: 112 min.
Based on the 1951 Ray Bradbury novel of the same name. Guy Montag is a firefighter who lives in a lonely, isolated society where books have been outlawed by a government fearing....
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Logan's Run (1976)
Directors: Michael Anderson
Actors: Michael York, Richard Jordan, Jenny Agutter
Run Time: 120 min.
It's 2274 and on the surface, it all seems to be an idyllic society. Living in a city within an enclosed dome, there is little or no work for humans to perform and inhabitants are free to pursue ....
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Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984)
Directors: Michael Radford
Actors: John Hurt, Richard Burton, Suzanna Hamilton
Run Time: 113 min.
After The Atomic War the world is divided into three states. London is the capital of Oceania, ruled by a party who has total control over all its citizens. Winston Smith is one of the bureaucrats....
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Brave New World (1980)
Directors: Burt Brinckerhoff
Actors: Julie Cobb, Bud Cort, Keir Dullea
Run Time: 93 min.
In a future society based on pleasure without moral worries, love is prohibited but casual sex, now called 'engaging', is strongly encouraged. Everyone is kept happy with a legal drug, soma.....
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Soylent Green (1973)
Directors: Richard Fleischer
Actors: Charlton Heston, Edward G. Robinson, Dick Van Patten
Run Time: 97 min.
A tale of Earth in despair in 2022. Natural food like fruits, vegetables, and meat among others are now extinct. Earth is overpopulated and New York City has 40 million starving, poverty ....
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2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Directors: Stanley Kubrick
Actors: Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester
Run Time: 14 min.
"2001" is a story of evolution. Sometime in the distant past, someone or something nudged evolution by placing a monolith on Earth (presumably elsewhere throughout the universe as well) ....
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Surrogates (2009)
Directors: Jonathan Mostow
Actors: Bruce Willis, Radha Mitchell, Rosamund Pike
Run Time: 88 min.
People are living their lives remotely from the safety of their own homes via robotic surrogates -- sexy, physically perfect mechanical representations of themselves. It's an ideal world where....
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Star Trek (2009)
Directors: J.J. Abrams
Actors: Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Leonard Nimoy
Run Time: 155 min.
On the day of James Kirk's birth, his father dies on his ship in a last stand against a mysterious alien vessel. He was looking for Ambassador Spock, who is a child on Vulcan at that time,....
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Soldier (1998/I)
Directors: Paul W.S. Anderson
Actors: Kurt Russell, Jason Scott Lee, Jason Isaacs
Run Time: 155 min.
In a futuristic society, some people are selected at birth to become soldiers, and trained in such a manner that they become inhuman killing machines. One of the most succesfull and ....
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The Day After Tomorrow (2004)
Directors: Roland Emmerich
Actors: Dennis Quaid, Jake Gyllenhaal, Emmy Rossum
Run Time: 124 min.
As Paleoclimatologist named Jack Hall was in Antartica, he discovers that a huge ice sheet has been sheared off. But what he did not know is that this event would trigger a massive climate ....
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An eye-opening exploration of how cutting-edge 21st-century technologies, in embryonic form right now, pose the stark alternatives of a real-life Utopia or Brave New World.
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spells out three scenarios:
"Heaven," a biological utopia where
poverty, disease and ignorance are eradicated;
"Hell," a dystopia
that could include bioterror, inequality based on biological
advantage, control of mankind by machines and nuclear catastrophe;
and
"Prevail," the author's preference, in which the future doesn't
arrive by a predetermined curve, but in a series of starts and stops,
with humans acting to forestall disaster.
The Garreau Group
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