IMDb > Zone 39 (1996)
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4.3/10   129 votes
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Director:
John Tatoulis
Writer:
Deborah Parsons (written by)
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Release Date:
25 June 1999 (USA) more
Genre:
Sci-Fi
Tagline:
The future is about to become a thing of the past more
Awards:
1 nomination more
User Reviews:
An awful lot for very little! more (5 total)

Cast

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Peter Phelps ... Leo Megaw
Carolyn Bock ... Anne / Novan Anne

William Zappa ... Sharp
Bradley Byquar ... Boas (as Brad Byquar)
Alex Menglet ... Tito
Jeff Kovski ... Pagett
Warwick Sadler ... Soldier #1
Simon Wilton ... Soldier #2
Richard Aspel ... Soldier #3
Bruno Stepnell ... Handless Man
David Tredinnick ... Young Soldier
Terry Carter ... Hustler #1
Russell Frost ... Hustler #2
Steve Fielder ... Pilot

Simon Hill ... NTU Medic (as Simon J. Hill)
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Zone Thirty Nine (International: English title) (alternative spelling)
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Runtime:
95 min
Country:
Australia
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Certification:
USA:Not Rated | Australia:MA
Filming Locations:
Central Australia, Australia more
Company:
Australian Film Finance Corporation (AFFC) more

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4 out of 11 people found the following review useful.
An awful lot for very little!, 16 November 2001
Author: Noel Bailey (uds3@hotmail.com) from Longmont: Colorado US

What do we have here? More futuristic doom and gloom! It is an age of communication technology (amidst the crumbling and decaying real world) where the unscrupulous have seized power - could be November 2001 couldn't it?

Alert computer techo Ann (Carolyn Bock), quite by accident stumbles across something she wasn't supposed to and quicker than you can say "back up the hard drive," she's outta here - a statistic! A dead one at that. Grieving husband MaGaw (Phelps) a zone soldier (the counterpart of 'Mo' (Dylan McDermott) in HARDWARE) is totally miffed by this turn of events and in his anguish, volunteers for a turn at the outpost Zone 39, suffering obviously from a touch of the DANCES WITH WOLVES syndrome. NO-ONE in their right mind 'volunteers' for Zone 39!! This high-tech, end-of-the-line foxhole, squares off against 'the enemy' in a similarly fortified outpost across the desert, wastelands, whatever you want to call it.

With only oddball "Alfie the Lizard" for human companionship, Magaw resorts to drug induced stupors to help pass the time, during which he re-visits his life with Ann in the occasional flashback. Eventually he decides "Well hell, my counterpart across the desert there, might just be a nice guy after all?" We are then staring down the barrel of the beginning of a new film "MAD MAX FINDS HELL IN THE PACIFIC." I just hope Lee Marvin never gets to read this!

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