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Idiocracy
Sign in to saveIdiocracy is a 2006 American science fiction comedy film directed and produced by Mike Judge, who co-wrote with Etan Cohen. The plot follows United States Army librarian Joe Bauers and prostitute Rita who undergo a government hibernation experiment and awake five hundred years later in a dystopian anti-intellectual society. The cast includes Luke Wilson, Maya Rudolph, Dax Shepard, Terry Crews, David Herman, Justin Long, Andrew Wilson, and Brad Jordan.
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*Idiocracy* is a 2006 American science fiction comedy film directed by Mike Judge. The screenplay was written by Etan Cohen and Mike Judge, who also served as producer. The cast includes Luke Wilson, Maya Rudolph, Dax Shepard, and Terry Crews. Tim Suhrstedt was the director of photography, and Theodore Shapiro composed the music. The film was produced by 20th Century Studios and Ternion Pictures, with filming taking place in Austin.
The movie has a runtime of 84 minutes and was originally released in English. It was distributed by 20th Century Studios, Netflix, and Disney+ via video on demand. The narrative is set in the United States. Production costs were $30,000,000, while the film generated $495,303 in revenue.
Critical reception included a 71% score, a 6.5/10 rating, and a 66/100 assessment. On IMDb, the film holds a 6.5 rating based on 216,776 votes. TMDb lists a vote average of 6.371 from 3,539 votes. The film’s tagline is "In the future, intelligence is extinct."
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Film · TMDB
6.4To test its top-secret Human Hibernation Project, the Pentagon picks the most average European-Americans it can find - an Army private and a prostitute - and sends them to the year 2505 after a series of freak events. But when they arrive, they find a civilization so dumbed-down that they're the smartest people around.
Cast
- Luke Wilson as Joe Bauers
- Maya Rudolph as Rita
- Dax Shepard as Frito
- Terry Crews as President Camacho
- Anthony 'Citric' Campos as Secretary of Defense
- David Herman as Secretary of State
Themes
- future
- army
- prostitute
- usa president
- congress
- experiment
- arena
- capitalism
- dark comedy
- hibernation
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Key facts
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- Idiocracy movie poster.jpg
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- In the style of Leonardo da Vinci's "Vitruvian Man", a diagram depicting a male slob.
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- Theatrical release poster
- Film.director
- Mike Judge
- Film.story
- Mike Judge
- Film.cinematography
- Tim Suhrstedt
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- David Rennie
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- Theodore Shapiro
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- 20th Century Fox
- Film.runtime
- 84 minutes
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- United States
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- English
- Film.budget
- $2.4million
- Film.gross
- $495,303
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- science fiction film
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English language
- Director
- Mike Judge
- Screenwriter
- Mike Judge
- Composer
- Theodore Shapiro
- Producer
- Mike Judge
- Production company
- 20th Century Studios
- Cinematographer
- Tim Suhrstedt
- Narrative location
- United States
- Filming location
- Austin
- Duration
- 84
- FilmAffinity ID
- 798386
- Distribution format
- video on demand
- Official website
- www.foxconnect.com
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- publication date
- 2006-09-01
- title
- Idiocracy
- distributed by
- Disney+
- Commons category
- Idiocracy
- assessment
- Bechdel test
- review score
- 66/100
- set in period
- 26th century
- inspired by
- The Marching Morons
- capital cost
- 2400000
- box office
- 495303
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Encyclopedic overview
14 sectionsContents
- Plot
- Cast
- Themes
- Production
- Release
- Box office
- Reception
- Home media
- Spin-offs
- Legacy
- See also
- Notes
- References
- External links
Idiocracy is a 2006 American science fiction comedy film directed and produced by Mike Judge, who co-wrote with Etan Cohen. The plot follows United States Army librarian Joe Bauers and prostitute Rita who undergo a government hibernation experiment and awake five hundred years later in a dystopian anti-intellectual society. The cast includes Luke Wilson, Maya Rudolph, Dax Shepard, Terry Crews, David Herman, Justin Long, Andrew Wilson, and Brad Jordan.
The concept of Idiocracy dates back to a concept Judge envisioned in 1996. Judge finished a script with the working title 3001 in 2001, rewriting the film a year later. Filming took place throughout 2004 at Austin Studios and other cities in Texas. Idiocracy serves as a social satire that touches on issues including anti-intellectualism, commercialism, consumerism, dysgenics, voluntary childlessness, and overpopulation.
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