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They Live
A homeless drifter discovers a pair of sunglasses that allow him to wake up to the fact that aliens have taken over the Earth.
19 March 1971, Los Angeles, California, USA
28 March 1949, New York City, New York, USA
13 September 1924, Fort Worth, Texas, USA
17 June 1955, Inglewood, California, USA
1941, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
19 July 1957, USA
28 October 1937, Milton-Freewater, Oregon, USA
26 April 1931, New York City, New York, USA
4 October 1938, USA
5 April 1949, Sonora, California, USA
23 June 1947, Los Angeles, California, USA
30 September 1952
17 April 1954, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
22 July 1944, Hollywood, California, USA
November 10, 2015
Campy, satirical classic has lots of violence, profanity.
December 01, 2013
Behold the message as articulated by John Carpenter's sublime sci-fi opus: "I'm giving you a choice: Either put on these glasses, or start eating that trashcan."
February 19, 2014
Carpenter should stick to what he's good at-scaring folks-and leave the political satire to Spitting Image.
February 17, 2017
Carpenter's primary objective was to make a tough action flick, which he does; it fits snugly into his filmography's subset of urban mayhem movies (alongside 'Escape from New York,' 'Assault on Precinct 13,' and parts of 'Big Trouble in Little China').
February 07, 2015
Cheesy fun from the 1980s.
October 10, 2012
The joke is in the material; the idea itself is funny and daring. And some time soon, They Live suggests, with grim, knowing wink, the joke may be on us.
April 26, 2016
With Carpenter's clear, widescreen direction and his skill and enthusiasm at their highest peak, this is a masterpiece.
August 06, 2013
As a movie, They Live is lethargic. As election propaganda, it's terrific.
June 04, 2007
A fantastically subversive film, a nifty little confection pitting us vs them, the haves vs the have-nots.
June 04, 2007
All in all, an entertaining (if ideologically incoherent) response to the valorization of greed in our midst.
October 10, 2012
They Live is the looniest movie of the season and also one of the most engaging.
August 06, 2013
John Carpenter's They Live has cult favorite written all over it, and part of the reason is the way it regenerates the cheap, juicy, surprisingly potent sci-fi of the 1950s.
