THX 1178
(The Director's Cut)
Two Special Shows - January 17th & 18th!
Paired with Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back!
**Member & Non-Member Tickets avail for both shows!**
In the future, mankind lives in vast underground cities and free will is outlawed by means of mandatory medication that controls human emotion. But when THX 1138 (Robert Duvall) and LUH 3417 (Maggie McOmie) stop taking their meds, they wake up to the bleak reality of their own existence and fall in love with each other in the process. But love is also illegal in this Orwellian dystopia, and the act of making love has made both of them outlaws on the run from an army of robotic police.
THX 1178 - ORGINAL ROGER EBERT FILM REVIEW
3 STARS!
"His (Lucas) film was inspired by a student film he did at UCLA, which won the National Student Film Festival in 1968. The student work was sort of a dry run for this one, exploring ways of creating inexpensive but totally convincing special effects for a futuristic society. The experiment was a success; the subterranean laboratories, apartments, and corridors in “THX-1138” have a blinding, white porcelain sameness, and the characters seem to inhabit the future’s most spectacular and sanitary bathroom fixtures." For the full review please CLICK HERE.
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