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Year: 1971
Runtime: 136 min
Language: English
Director: Stanley Kubrick
In this dystopian morality tale, Stanley Kubrick brings Anthony Burgess' novel to life with a haunting critique of free will versus conditioning. Alex McDowell's titular character revels in ultra-violent chaos until he's captured and subjected to a treatment that transforms him into a "clockwork orange" - a shell of his former self, now impotent against the primal urges driving him.
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