Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 113 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Frights
- Mild
The story
Winston Smith is a government employee whose job involves the rewriting of history in a manner that casts his fictional country's leaders in a charitable light. His trysts with Julia provide his only measure of enjoyment, but lawmakers frown on the relationship -- and in this closely monitored society, there is no escape from Big Brother.
- based on novel or book
- dystopia
- fascism
- totalitarian regime
- anarchist
- brainwashing
- orwellian
- totalitarianism
- future vision
- future noir
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Gregor Fisher — Parsons
- James Walker — Syme
- Andrew Wilde — Tillotson
- David Cann — Martin
- Peter Frye — Rutherford
- Roger Lloyd Pack — Waiter
- David Trevena — Tillotson's Friend
- Anthony Benson — Jones
- Phyllis Logan — The Telescreen Anouncer (voice)
- Garry Cooper — Guard
- Rupert Baderman — Winston Smith as a Boy
- Directed
- Michael Radford
- Written
- Michael Radford
Production
- Rating
- 6.8 / 10 · 1,696 ratings
- Studio
- Umbrella-Rosenblum Film Production, Virgin Films
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
