Story Line
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.
“George Orwell's terrifying vision comes to the screen.”
Top Cast
John Hurt
Winston Smith
Richard Burton
O'Brien
Suzanna Hamilton
Julia
Cyril Cusack
Charrington
Gregor Fisher
Parsons
James Walker
Syme
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Rating
6.8/ 10
Release Date
1984-11-09
Runtime
1h 53m
Genres
DramaScience FictionThriller
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User Reviews (3)
CharlesTheBold
No rating•2/22/2017
Based on George Orwell's dystopian novel from the 1940s, the movie was produced in the very year that Orwell had set it, 1984.
Horrified by the recent atrocities by the Germans and Russians, and fearing that England and America might take a simil...
Peter McGinn
7/10
•3/1/2021Do not watch this movie if you are feeling pessimistic or depressed, because the kind of catharsis won’t help you. Nineteen-eighty-four is a bleak movie based on a dark novel that paints a totalitarian world that really sucks. Although they don’t mer...
CinemaSerf
7/10
•1/27/2025This adaptation is a fairly faithful, if a little too abridged, version of the Orwellian story of absolute power, sedition and oppression but it's really John Hurt who makes this version stand out. His performance as the weedy "Winston" - a low level...