THX 1138 (1971) movie poster

THX 1138 (1971)

"The Future is here."
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👍 75%Google users liked it ⓘ
Critics Score
🎬 80%
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Director
Runtime
1h 26m
Country
United States of America
Language
English
TMDB Rating
6.4/10 (1,030 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes
84%
Metacritic
75

Cast

Robert Duvall as THX · 74% avg
Donald Pleasence as SEN · 79% avg
Maggie McOmie as LUH
Ian Wolfe as PTO · 81% avg
Marshall Efron as TWA
Sid Haig as NCH · 76% avg
John Pearce as DWY

Is THX 1138 good?

Most people think so. 75% of audiences gave it a thumbs up, by Google's archived audience score. Critics agree, scoring it 80%.

Where it ranks on ThumbScore

Rank in its genre
#486 / 1040 · Science Fiction
Rank in its year
#22 / 26 · 1971
Rank among its director's films
#6 / 6 · George Lucas

By audience score, among films with 500 or more votes.

Overview

People in the future live in a totalitarian society. A technician named THX 1138 lives a mundane life between work and taking a controlled consumption of drugs that the government uses to make puppets out of people. As THX is without drugs for the first time he has feelings for a woman and they start a secret relationship. Wikipedia ↗

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What Reddit Thinks

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In American Graffiti (1973), the license plate on John’s car is THX 138. This is a reference to George Lucas’ previous movie THX 1138 (1971).
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In “The Phantom Menace” (1999) there is a small easter egg referencing one of Lucas’s first films “THX 1138” (1971) on the back of the battle droid.
Top comment: "That's one of Lucas's trademark easter eggs. 1138 appears in a lot of Star Wars media, most notably..."
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