Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 86 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
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.
- prison
- mind control
- future
- computer
- police
- dystopia
- drug addiction
- hearing
- totalitarian regime
- phasing
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Ian Wolfe — PTO
- Marshall Efron — TWA
- Sid Haig — NCH
- John Pearce — DWY
- Irene Cagen — IMM
- Gary Alan Marsh — CAM
- John Seaton — OUE
- Eugene I. Stillman — JOT
- Jack Walsh — TRG
- Mark Lawhead — Shell Dweller
- Robert Feero — Chrome Robot
- Directed
- George Lucas
- Written
- Walter Murch, George Lucas
Production
- Rating
- 6.4 / 10 · 1,103 ratings
- Studio
- Warner Bros. Pictures, American Zoetrope
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.
