Idiocracy
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| Directed by | Mike Judge |
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| Narrated by | Earl Mann |
| Music by | Theodore Shapiro |
| Cinematography | Tim Suhrstedt |
| Edited by | David Rennie |
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Ternion
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| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
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84 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $2–4 million |
| Box office | $495,303 (worldwide) |
Idiocracy is a 2006 American satirical science fiction comedy film directed by Mike Judge and starring Luke Wilson, Maya Rudolph, and Dax Shepard. The film tells the story of two people who take part in a top-secret military human hibernation experiment, only to awaken 500 years later in a dystopian society where advertising, commercialism, and cultural anti-intellectualism have run rampant, and which is devoid of intellectual curiosity, social responsibility, and coherent notions of justice and human rights.
The film was not screened for critics and distributor 20th Century Fox was accused of abandoning the film. Despite its lack of a major theatrical release, which resulted in a mere $495,303 box office, the film received generally positive reviews from critics and has become a cult film.
A United States Army librarian, Corporal "Average Joe" Bauers (Luke Wilson) is selected for a suspended animation experiment on grounds of average appearance, intelligence, behavior, etc. Lacking a suitable female candidate, they hire Rita (Maya Rudolph), a prostitute whose pimp "Upgrayedd" (Brad "Scarface" Jordan) has been bribed to allow her to take part. The experiment is forgotten when the officer in charge is arrested for having started his own prostitution ring under Upgrayedd's tutelage. Five hundred years later, Joe and Rita's suspension chambers are unearthed by the collapse of a mountain-sized garbage pile, and Joe's suspension chamber crashes into the apartment of Frito Pendejo (Dax Shepard), who expels him.
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