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The Purge

Cast

Ethan Hawke, Lena Headey, Max Burkholder, Adelaide Kane View All


Crew

James DeMonaco (Director), James DeMonaco (Writer) View All

Release: May 31st, 2013
Runtime: 1 hour, 26 minutes
Given the country's overcrowded prisons, the U.S. government begins to allow 12-hour periods of time in which all illegal activity is legal. During one of these free-for-alls, a family must protect themselves from a home invasion.
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TheUsualSuspect
Yet The Purge fails to capitalize on this concept and instead it confines itself to a one location low budget thrill show in the style of 2008's The Strangers.
The Gunslinger45
The weakest of these theories are general theories of crime that try to find a blanket answer to all crime.
Iroquois
Those complications do offer the film a modicum of personality as its core dilemma - the young son of a rich family disobeying his parents by letting a homeless stranger into their high-security home, thus drawing the attention of a gang of rich killers looking to murder the poor - prompts some degr....
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