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Idiocracy

Mar 29—Apr 2, 2024
    Part of
  • Living Cartoons: Live Action Films by Animators
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  • BAM Film 2024
Directed by Mike Judge (2006)
With Luke Wilson, Maya Rudolph, Dax Shepard, Terry Crews, Anthony 'Citric' Campos

Joe Bowers (Luke Wilson) is not the sharpest tool in the shed, but when a government hibernation experiment goes awry, Bowers awakens in the year 2505 to find a society so dumbed down by mass commercialism and mindless TV programming that he's become the smartest guy on the planet. Now it's up to an average Joe to get human evolution back on track. The second live action feature from Judge (Beavis and Butthead, King of the Hill), primary-color set design and violent slapstick feel straight out of his 90s cartoon beginnings.

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