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Brave New World (1980)

Brave New World poster
Directed by
Burt Brinckerhoff
Genre
dystopian film
Country
United States
Runtime
3h
Rating
6.2 of 10 from 30 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A man is born and raised in a futuristic society where everyone is genetically engineered and conditioned to fit a strict social hierarchy. He is allowed to travel to a reservation where people live naturally, which calls into question his society's values.

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What happens

Brave New World is an American television film first shown in 1980. It was also shown on the BBC that same year, and is an adaptation of the 1932 novel of the same name by Aldous Huxley. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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