Brave New World (Blu-ray)
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 30 minutes
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: May 14, 2013
- Originally Released: 1998
- Label: Vei
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Peter Gallagher, Leonard Nimoy, Tim Guinee, Sally Kirkland & Rya Kihlstedt | |
Performer: | Daniel Dae Kim & Miguel Ferrer | |
Directed by | Larry Williams & Leslie Libman | |
Edited by | Cindy Mollo | |
Screenwriting by | Dan Mazur & David Tausik | |
Composition by | Dan Licht | |
Cinematography by | Ron Garcia | |
Director of Photography: | Ron Garcia |
Entertainment Reviews:
46%
AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 954
With its nap-time whispers, theme-park slogans, virtual-reality "feelies," pervasive scent and community sings, this brave new cloud chamber could have been fabricated from the Spam in our e-mail.
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Product Description:
Aldous Huxley's 1932 science fiction novel was previously adapted to film (a 1980 TV movie starring Bud Cort) and radio (a 1956 CBS RADIO WORKSHOP two-parter with an opening intro by Huxley) and again to TV in this 1998 production. In a high-tech city of a future time, humans are genetically engineered, monogamy is frowned on, and the drug Soma is consumed to eliminate stress in a society where the citizens are niched into rigid classes (Alpha, Beta, Delta, Gamma). Scornful looks are directed at high-level Alphas Bernard Marx (Peter Gallagher) and Lenina Crowne (Rya Kihlstedt), a couple who have become interested in each other over and beyond the commonly accepted one-night stands. Bernard has climbed to the upper echelons at the Neo-Pavlovian Conditioning Center, while Lenina is employed in the educational conditioning field. When Bernard and Lenina visit an outlying Reservation, their copter crashes, and they are under attack by the locals when Shakespeare-quoting "savage" John Cooper (Tim Guinee) intervenes. When John takes Bernard and Lenina to the house where he lives with his alcoholic mother Linda (Sally Kirkland), Bernard is fascinated by John's retro way of life and his collection of literature. With automatic satellite tracking in play, a craft arrives in short order to return Bernard and Lenina to the city. For research purposes, Bernard takes the two back to civilization -- where John (aka "The Savage") becomes a media celeb, and Linda gets hooked on Soma. The Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning (Miguel Ferrer) considers Cooper a threat to society, but his superior, the Controller (Leonard Nimoy), who thinks the social order is secure, holds a progressive, thoughtful attitude regarding past, present, and future. Meanwhile, Lenina has a sexual attraction for John, who rejects her passionate advances because it "isn't love," and he soon becomes disenchanted with the unspiritual, hedonistic way of life he sees in this "brave new world." Premiered April 19, 1998 on NBC.