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Fahrenheit 451

Rating:No Rating
Genre:Drama, SciFi/Fantasy, Suspense/Thriller
Release Date:November 3, 1989
Running time:112 minutes
Cast:Oskar Werner, Julie Christie, Cyril Cusack, Anton Diffring, Jeremy Spenser
Director:Francois Truffaut
Producer:Lewis M Allen
Writer:Francois Truffaut, Jean-Louis Richard, Ray Bradbury, David Rudkin, Helen G Scott
Distributor:Universal Pictures

Description: In an oppressive future, Guy Montag has the job of burning all books. In Guy's isolated society, the government, fearing a well-read, thinking public, has outlawed books. Guy's zombied-out wife who gets all her information from a wall-sized TV, but Clarisse, a woman who secretly reads books, ultimately brings Guy to question the government's motives.

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