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Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9786303801919 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC ISBN: 6303801919 Label: Republic Pictures Manufacturer: Republic Pictures Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Republic Pictures Release Date: January 01, 1998 Running Time: 99 minutes Studio: Republic Pictures Theatrical Release Date: August 13, 1995 Sales Rank: 10574 Related Items:
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 Rating:  - Illustrates where we are headedwith the continued dumbing down of the population and we just might be past the point of no return. Rating: - The Truth doesn't hurt, unless it shouldThis production never received the recognition it deserves, perhaps because it is a mirror to politicians, leaders. and the movie industry. Harrison Bergeron shows us a world in which we see social convention (currently called "political correctness") taken to its final extreme, where the Government shuts down the brains of smarter individuals in order to insure that no one feels bad about being below normal. Everyone is reduced to average stupidity. The film is very ... Read More Rating:  - Foreseeing PC Dystopia A cautionary tale of political-correctness taken to its logical extreme in a leftist dystopia that enforces "equality" and no one is permitted the freedom of achievement or failure, since everyone is made to have the same ability ---whether they like it or not. Mediocrity and standardization are enforced on citizens by a totalitarian socialist government of well-meaning know-better elites (who are of course exempt from their own rules) until one young man rebels and threatens their order. In the ... Read More Rating: - Funny results of America's communist revolution !This is a funny dark sci-fi comedy based on Kurt Vonnegut's short story, an anti-communist allegory exploring the ultimate result of a communist revolution in America. The new subjects are required to submit to various handicaps to make them all "equal," including bands to stupify their brains, leg weights, etc. Of course it turns out it's all enforced by an elite class led by Christopher Plummer (The Sound Of Music, Star Trek VI The Undiscovered Country). As I recall the short story, ... Read More Rating: - A freak chance never to be lived downI haven't seen this film in ages, but I remember it being an impulse rent from a family member who has yet to live down this particular event. Essentially, the family felt the movie was pretty bad, bad enough to be the top reason we don't let anyone impulse rent a movie they've never heard of for fear of witnessing a cataclysmicly bad movie. I give it three stars because while watching I knew that it was a story that would make a great short story but was not something that could be properly transferred ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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