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Writers (WGA):
Aldous Huxley (book)
Dan Mazur (teleplay) ...
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19 April 1998 (USA) more
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In a futuristic totalitarian society, people have no control of their lives and/or destiny. | add synopsis
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Cast

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Peter Gallagher ... Bernard Marx

Leonard Nimoy ... Mustapha Mond

Tim Guinee ... John Cooper

Rya Kihlstedt ... Lenina Crowne
Sally Kirkland ... Linda
Patrick J. Dancy ... Henry Foster
Steven Flynn ... James

Wendy Benson-Landes ... Fanny (as Wendy Benson)

Steven Schub ... Beta Clerk

Daniel Dae Kim ... Ingram

Miguel Ferrer ... Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning

Angela Oh ... Delta Coffee Server

Jacob Chase ... Gabriel
Nicholas Belgrave ... Alpha Student Boy #1 (as Nick Belgrave)

Katie DeShan ... Alpha Student Girl #1
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87 min
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fair representation of Huxley's ideas, 30 October 2005
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Author: richardv-johnson from Boston

Low-budget and made for TV, yes, but also perfect casting and good sets and costumes. Lenina's resemblance to Anna Karina in Alphaville can't be accidental. Compared with the low-rent mall interiors of THX1138 and Logan's Run it looks luxurious. The better you know the book the more interesting it will be. BNW is hardly a literary classic, rather a socio-political essay like 1984. Huxley foresaw so much so early - in 1932 there were only two totalitarian states, Soviet Russia and Fascist Italy, neither especially consumerist. A few of Huxley's ideas are missing from the film, notably the deification of Henry Ford and the prevalence of cloning. But there are few missteps compared with most adaptations, just a hokey ending, the deranged Delta assassin subplot, and making Linda an outsider instead of a misplaced 'civilized' person. The slogans are straight from the book, even the song lyrics. Fortunately the 20th century demonstrated that neither totalitarian propaganda nor relentless advertising can really get people to believe lies for long. But in most ways the real world has turned out worse than BNW - Huxley predicted the pornography of sex but not the pornography of violence, Betas (or worse) are running things, not Alphas, and every attempt at Soma (ecstasy, Valium) has turned out to have a dark side.

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