Idiocracy
Idiocracy is a 2006 American science fiction comedy film directed by Mike Judge from a screenplay written by Judge and Etan Cohen. The plot follows United States Army librarian Joe Bauers and prostitute Rita, who undergo a government hibernation experiment. Joe and Rita awake five hundred years later in a dystopian anti-intellectual society. The cast includes Luke Wilson, Maya Rudolph, Dax Shepard, Terry Crews, David Herman, Justin Long, Andrew Wilson, and Brad Jordan.
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| Running time | 84 minutes
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| Country | United States
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| Language | English
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| Budget | $2–4 million
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| Box office | $495,303
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- Many characters are named after present companies and products: Beef Supreme, Velveeta (newscaster), and Hank "The Hangman" BMW.
- In addition to the Fuddrucker's gag, early drafts of the script had another scene showing the devolution of sports - with a stadium's marquee sign changing from "Championship Baseball" to "Extreme Baseball" (essentially just a bat fight), to finally just "Fire".
- Unsure of how to market the film after disastrous test screenings, Fox sat on the near-completed film for over a year, before finally giving it an unusually small release in only 6 markets (skipping over major markets such as New York City). The release was done with little to no marketing.
- Artie Lange auditioned for a role.
- When Joe is escaping from prison he runs past a rusted out DeLorean, an obvious nod to another time traveling movie, Back to the Future (1985).
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