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About
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.
Theatrical
Mar 11, 1971
Box Office
$2.4M
Budget
$777K
Return
3.1x
DVD / Blu-ray
Jan 1, 1983
Theaters
4
Director
George Lucas
Writers
George Lucas, Walter Murch
Producers
Larry Sturhahn, Francis Ford Coppola, Edward Folger
Music
Lalo Schifrin
Studio
Warner Bros. Pictures, American Zoetrope
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Quotes
See all →A Love Story in a Dystopian Future
Taglines
A Love Story Filmed on Location in the 21st Century.
The Future Has Arrived
Taglines
The Future is here.
Love as a Crime in the Future
Taglines
Visit the future where love is the ultimate crime.
Standardization and Compliance in a Controlled Society
Voice on radio
For more enjoyment and greater efficiency, consumption is being standardized.
Android
Are you now or have you ever been?
Female voice (medicine cabinet)
If you feel you are not properly sedated, call 348-844 immediately. Failure to do so may result in prosecution for criminal drug evasion.
Voice on radio
I think I ran over something. I ran over a Wookie back there on the expressway.
Cast
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Robert Duvall
THX
D
Donald Pleasence
SEN
D
Don Pedro Colley
SRT
M
Maggie McOmie
LUH
I
Ian Wolfe
PTO
M
Marshall Efron
TWA
S
Sid Haig
NCH
J
John Pearce
DWY
I
Irene Cagen
IMM
J
Jack Walsh
TRG
M
Mark Lawhead
Shell Dweller
R
Robert Feero
Chrome Robot
J
Johnny Weissmuller Jr.
Chrome Robot
J
James Wheaton
OMM (voice)
H
Henry Jacobs
Mark 8 Student
D
Doc Scortt
Monk
G
Gary Austin
Man in Yellow
R
Ralph Chesse
Trial Proctor
B
Bruce Chesse
Trial Pontifex
M
Mello Alexandria
Hologram Dancer
