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THX 1138

THX 1138

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Status

Released

Release Date

Mar 11, 1971

Runtime

1h 26m

Genres

Science Fiction, Action, Drama

User Score

64%

Original Title

THX 1138

Production Companies

American Zoetrope, Warner Bros. Pictures

Director

George Lucas

Budget

$777,000

Revenue

$2,437,000

Description

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.