Nineteen Eighty-Four
George Orwell's terrifying vision comes to the screen.
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.
- Director
- Michael Radford
- Signature
- Drama · Tension · Wonder
- Worldwide
- $8M
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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.
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Nineteen Eighty-Four returned 1.1× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $7M
- Opening weekend
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- Domestic gross
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- International gross
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- Worldwide gross
- $8M
- Release date
- Nov 9, 1984
- Runtime
- 1h 53m
- MPAA rating
- —
- Language
- English
- Country
- United Kingdom
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