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Format: VHS
Oct 1994
Rated R
Recording Mode: Stereo
Sound: Stereo, HiFi
Closed Captioned
118 min.
Color
UPC: 026359098239 |
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Movie Description
In a bleak future, a Marine Captain is sentenced to a remote prison island on which two factions of prisoners, one of builders and the other of looters, are at war. While the looters plot a final attack, the Captain searches for a means of escape.
Synopsis
In the year 2022, prisons are run by corporations who have an inhumane way of dealing with its incorrigible criminals, or three-time losers. There are no education programs, no rehabilitation, just Absolom, a remote island that is the site of an ultra-maximum security prison. Ex-Marine Robbins has been dropped in the middle of the warring prisoners, using his military training to survive among the Outsiders a radical, violent group and the serene Insiders who are trying to bring some peace to the violent island.
Film Notes
Shot in Australia under the working title "Penal Colony."
Co-produced by Pacific Western.
Stunt Doubles: Brett Craft (for Ray Liotta); George Novak (for Stuart Wilson); Michael Van Moorsel (for Lance Henriksen & Kevin Dillon); Greg Blandy (for Ernie Hudson); and Bernie Ledger (for Michael Lerner).
Additional credits: Bob McCarron (prosthetic makeup) and Dennis Skotak (visual effects director of photography).
SEE-ALSO for Best Supporting Performer refers to British Actor Stuart Wilson, who portrays Marek.
Rated BBFC 15 by the British Board of Film Classification.
Copyright 1994 Savoy Pictures, Inc.
Quotations
"The year is 2022. In the prison of the future escape is impossible. Survival isn't much easier." -- marketing line for the film
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