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09/11/1984 Drama, Science Fiction, Thriller 1h 53m
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George Orwell's terrifying vision comes to the screen.

Overview

Winston Smith 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 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.

  1. Michael Radford

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. John Hurt

    Winston Smith

  2. Richard Burton

    O'Brien

  3. Suzanna Hamilton

    Julia

  4. Cyril Cusack

    Charrington

  5. Gregor Fisher

    Parsons

  6. James Walker

    Syme

  7. Andrew Wilde

    Tillotson

  8. David Cann

    Martin

  9. Peter Frye

    Rutherford

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf
Written by CinemaSerf on 2025-01-27
This adaptation is a fairly faithful, if a little too abridged, version of the Orwellian story of absolute power, sedition and oppression but it's really John Hurt who makes this version stand out. His performance as the weedy "Winston" - a low level bureaucrat in the Ministry of Truth, is visceral as he depicts a character who has found his own way to rebel against the not so benevolent rule of "Big Brother". Everything they do, say - even think, is being monitored and so his life is conceivably now in considerable danger. That is only likely to increase after he encounters the like-minded "J...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$7,430,072.00

Revenue
$8,430,492.00

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