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1984 doesn't fully emerge from the shadow of its source material, but still proves a solid, suitably discomfiting adaptation of a classic dystopian tale. Read critic reviews
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1984 videos
1984: Official Clip - It Creeps Up on You
1984: Official Clip - O'Brien Tortures Winston
1984: Official Clip - Your Kind is Extinct
1984: Official Clip - Corrupt to the Core
1984: Official Clip - Victory is Not Possible
1984: Official Clip - Caught in the Bedroom
1984: Official Clip - Vision of the Future
1984: Official Clip - Two Minutes Hate
1984: Official Clip - Winston is Tested
1984: Official Clip - A Small Effort of Will
1984: Official Clip - Do You Like Me?
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Movie Info
A man loses his identity while living under a repressive regime. In a story based on George Orwell's classic novel, Winston Smith (John Hurt) 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 (Suzanna Hamilton) 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.
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Rating: R
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Genre: Sci-fi
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Original Language: English
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Director: Michael Radford
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Producer: Simon Perry
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Writer: George Orwell, Michael Radford
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Release Date (Theaters): limited
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Distributor: Atlantic Releasing Corp.
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Production Co: Paramount, MGM
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Audience Reviews for 1984
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It is the likely the perfect realization of Orwell's novel on a purely visual level. I have minor quibbles with the screenplay but at least it is a total downer. Also Hurt is the only conceivable choice to play Winston
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2 + 2 = 22. new math!
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Straightforward adaptation. Reasonably compelling. Between a 3.5 and a 4. Bumping it to a 4.
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It's got great costumes, amazing set design, atmospheric and masterfully displayed. Although there were some small changes from the book, I still enjoyed the adaptation greatly. I didn't like how explicit the film treated with nudity and sex, it shouldn't be so graphic, it doesn't really match the depressing theme running throughout. One thing that really stood was the change of calling each other comrades to calling each other brothers or sisters, it made sense to the use of Big Brother. The lunacy and frantic of the Two Minutes Hate were badly done I reckon, it wasn't really that heated, people were able to control themselves straight after kinda didn't make sense and seemed flimsy. But overall, Nineteen Eighty Four was quite well done, but not great.
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