THX 1138

1971 86 min Science Fiction, Drama

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.

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IMDb 6.6 RT 72 Metacritic 75

budget $777,000 earnings $2,437,000 return 3.1x

director George Lucas

writers George Lucas, Walter Murch

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