Movies - Fortress

Home > Listing Index > Movies > Fortress (1992 film)

	Movies - Fortress

Fortress is a 1992 film directed by Stuart Gordon. The story takes place in a dystopian future. The main character in the movie, John Henry Brennick (Christopher Lambert) and his wife Karen B. Brennick (Loryn Locklin) are sent to a maximum security prison because they are expecting a second child, which is against strict one child policies.

Although set in the future and handling number of interesting dystopian SF subjects, such as subjecting thoughts to law and regulation, and companies running facilities such as prisons, the plot is basically a typical "big escape from prison" story.

Cast

Christopher Lambert: John Henry Brennick
Loryn Locklin: Karen B. Brennick
Kurtwood Smith
: Prison Director Poe
Carolyn Purdy-Gordon: voice of Zed-10
Lincoln Kilpatrick: Abraham
Jeffrey Combs
: D-Day, Computer Geek
Tom Towles: Stiggs, Maddox's Buddy
Vernon Wells
: Maddox
Clifton Collins Jr.
: Nino Gomez

Plot

Set in a dystopian future the year 2017, in the USA, John Henry Brennick (Christopher Lambert) and his wife Karen B. Brennick (Loryn Locklin) are expecting a second child. Strict one child policies forbid a second pregnancy, but the couple attempts it anyway because their first child unfortunately died at child-birth. They are caught and sent to a maximum security prison that is owned and run by a company, rather than the government, called the 'MenTel Corporation'. John Brennick has to deal with an unreasonable environment; he is not allowed to dream in his sleep, and is tortured by a sadistic Prison Director (Kurtwood Smith) , his unborn child is now officially owned by the MenTel Corporation. (the company seems to use these children to create cyborgs.)

Fortunately, Prison Director Poe has an eye on John Brennick's wife, Karen. John befriends a Computer Geek, D-Day (Jeffrey Combs) who find a way to remove the special "intestinator" chips that are implemented in each prisoner's intestines, and can cause great pain and even explode when set off by the security system. And he manages to convince his fellow prisoner Abraham (Lincoln Kilpatrick) that Poe will never allow his parole, and is only using it as a carrot on a stick. This opens an opportunity to escape. After uploading a virus on the AI computer warden Zed-10 (voice by Carolyn Purdy-Gordon) the group manages to escape.

John Brennick and his wife flee to Mexico.

Trivia

The movie was shot in Australia.

[ Visit the complete Wikipedia entry for Fortress (1992 film) ]

This page is based on the copyrighted Wikipedia article Fortress (1992 film); it is used under the GNU Free Documentation License. You may redistribute it, verbatim or modified, providing that you comply with the terms of the GFDL.

Searches on eBay