20 Minutes into the Future
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| Max Headroom: 20 Minutes into the Future | |
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| Directed by | Rocky Morton Annabel Jankel |
| Produced by | Peter Wagg |
| Written by | Steve Roberts |
| Starring | Matt Frewer Nickolas Grace Amanda Pays Morgan Sheppard Roger Sloman |
| Music by | Midge Ure Chris Cross |
| Cinematography | Phil Meheux |
| Editing by | Michael Bradsell |
| Distributed by | Virgin |
| Release date(s) | 1985 |
| Running time | 57 min. |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
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Max Headroom: 20 Minutes into the Future was a 1985 cyberpunk television movie created by Chrysalis Visual Programming Ltd. for Channel 4 to provide a back story for Max Headroom, an animated television reporter.
The film introduces Edison Carter (Matt Frewer), a television reporter trying to expose corruption and greed. In the movie, reporter Carter discovers that his employer, Network 23, has created a new form of subliminal advertising (termed "blip-verts") that can be fatal to certain viewers. While attempting to flee the network headquarters with proof, Edison suffers a serious head injury, caused by banging into a low-clearance sign labeled "Max. Headroom". Believing him killed, the network's chief executive orders Bryce Lynch, an adolescent genius working as a scientist for Network 23, to digitally record Carter's mind. The recording will then be used to create a computer-based replacement for Carter in order to hide his death. The resulting program achieves a life of its own as the eccentric, unpredictable entity (adopting the name "Max Headroom", from the last object Carter saw before being knocked out). Meanwhile, a merely unconscious Carter escapes from a body bank and, with the help of colleague Theora Jones (Amanda Pays), eventually defeats Network 23.
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