THX 1138

Mar 11, 1971

1h 26m

★ 6.4

The Future is here.

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.

Genres

Science Fiction

Drama

Production Companies

Warner Bros. Pictures

American Zoetrope

THX 1138 Trailers

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

OUE

John Seaton

JOT

Eugene I. Stillman

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