Nineteen Eighty-Four

About Nineteen Eighty-Four

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.

Nineteen Eighty-Four is a 1984 science fiction thriller film directed by Michael Radford. Released in November 1984, it runs 113 minutes.

John Hurt appears as Winston Smith, Richard Burton as O'Brien, Suzanna Hamilton as Julia, and Cyril Cusack as Charrington. Written by Michael Radford. It is adapted from a novel.

Shelv files it under authoritarian, fascism, brainwashing, and anarchist.

Equilibrium, Planet of the Apes, and The Running Man make useful companions to Nineteen Eighty-Four, all filed under dystopia and totalitarian regime. It scores 6.8 out of 10 from 1,718 TMDB voters and it carries a R rating.