Columbia Pictures
Directed by Michael Anderson
My rating: 3 stars out of 4
IMDb
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First adaptation of Orwell's 1949 novel of a futuristic society where "Big Brother" is omnipresent via two-way television that keeps society in check. Sex is reserved for arranged marriages, but when a man finds himself pursued by a beautiful co-worker they meet secretly in the country away from the all-seeing tv eye. Back in the city, they find an apartment for their trysts but it turns out not to be safe after all and they are carried away by the sex police to be "rehabilitated". Occasionally stiff but still compelling, and relevant, statement of the dangers of a totalitarian society.
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