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Moon 44 (1990)

Moon 44 poster
Directed by
Roland Emmerich
Genre
cyberpunk, action film, adventure film, prison film, science fiction film, thriller film
Country
Germany, United States
Runtime
1h 26m
Rated
R
Rating
5.1 of 10 from 149 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

An undercover agent is sent to a remote mining colony on the Moon. He must investigate the disappearance of corporate shuttles while working alongside convicts and young technicians.

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What happens

Moon 44 is a 1990 English-language West German science fiction action film directed, produced, and co-written by Roland Emmerich. It stars Michael Paré, Lisa Eichhorn, Malcolm McDowell, Brian Thompson, and Dean Devlin. The film is set on a futuristic mining site on Moon 44, where convicts and teenage technicians are partnered. An undercover agent (Paré) must discover what has happened to missing corporate shuttles. It was produced by Centropolis Entertainment, and released in West Germany on February 15, 1990. In the United States, the film was released direct-to-video. It received mixed-to-negative reviews. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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