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1990 American film
Circuitry Man
Directed bySteven Lovy
Written by
  • Steven Lovy
  • Robert Lovy
Produced by
  • Steven Reich
  • John Schouweiler
Starring
CinematographyJamie Thompson
Edited by
  • Gregory Neri
  • Jonas Thaler
Music byDeborah Holland
Production
companies
Distributed bySkouras Pictures
Release dates
  • May 25, 1990 (1990-05-25)
(Seattle International Film Festival)
October 31, 1990
Running time93 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Circuitry Man is a 1990 American post apocalyptic science fiction film directed by Steven Lovy and starring Jim Metzler, Dana Wheeler-Nicholson and Vernon Wells. It was followed by a sequel, Plughead Rewired: Circuitry Man II, in 1994.

Synopsis

In post-apocalyptic 2020, pollution has killed off the natural world and the population is forced to live underground. A woman attempts to smuggle a suitcase of contraband drug/chips from Los Angeles to the underground remnants of New York City, while eluding both police and gangsters. Along the way, she is aided by a romantic bio-mechanical pony-tailed android and pursued by Plughead, a villain with the ability to tap into people's minds.

Cast

Production

Circuitry Man was adapted from a student film Steven Lovy made while attending UCLA. Shooting began in July 1989 and took place in Los Angeles and Antelope Valley, California.

Reception

Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Times called it "nothing if not derivative" but "consistently distinctive and funny". In The Psychotronic Video Guide, Michael Weldon described it as "a clever, sometimes funny, well-made science fiction adventure" that is more fun than Hardware or Total Recall, two science fiction films that were also released in 1990. Tech Noir author Paul Meehan, discussing film noir in science fiction, wrote that the film attempts to overcome its low budget with gratuitous violence but called Wells "memorably nasty".

References

  1. ^ "Circuitry Man (1990)". AFI Catalog of Feature Films. Retrieved 2017-12-09.
  2. Thomas, Kevin (1990-10-31). "MOVIE REVIEW : Pollution Apocalypse in 'Circuitry Man'". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2017-12-09.
  3. Weldon, Michael (1996). The Psychotronic Video Guide To Film. Macmillan Publishers. p. 108. ISBN 9780312131494.
  4. Meehan, Paul (2017). Tech-Noir: The Fusion of Science Fiction and Film Noir. McFarland & Company. p. 197. ISBN 9781476609737.

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