Outland Movie Review

Starring: Sean Connery, Peter Boyle, Frances Sternhagen, James Sikking, Kika Markham

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OUTLAND is a movie written and directed by Peter Hyams in 1981. Nomination for the Academy Awards in the Best Sound category.

Io. Sean Connery is the new sheriff on this planet. He represents the law for the 2000 people working in the mines and extracting Titane. When he tries to understand why there are regularly strange suicides amidst the workers, he's soon asked to close his eyes and accept a bribe. Connery discovers that a synthetic drug is the cause of the numerous psychotic behaviours appearing more and more int the station.

A classic. Adult science-fiction for once.
Daniel Staebler, Resident Scholar

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Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 30%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzle - 50%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 20%

**Fantasy or Science Fiction?** - science fiction story
Spying - Investigations Yes
If the enemy is a group... - drug dealers

Main Character
Identity: - Male
Profession/status: - police/lawman
Age: - 40's-50's
Eccentric: Yes - eccentric - wild
Hair color? - white/grey
Hair type - (man) short/medium straight
Body type - muscular (man)
Events of movie makes character more... - sad
Ethnicity/Nationality - White (American)
How sensitive is this character? - sensitive to others' feelings
Intelligence - Smarter than most other characters
Physique - average physique

Secondary Main Character
Identity: - Female
Hair color - blonde
Hair style - (woman) medium/shoulderlgn, straight
How much in movie? - 40%
Ethnicity/Nationality - White (American)

Main Adversary
Identity: - an organization
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in: - 90%-100%

Setting
Which planet? - Asteroids
Not Earth, but in Solar System? Yes
In Space? - in spacesuit
Misc settings - prison

Style
Accounts of torture and death? - explicit references to deaths
Tone of movie - depressed/sad
Sex/nudity in movie? Yes
What kind of sex: - vauge references only - kissing - seeing breasts
Kinds of F/X - exotic spaceships - nasty human transformations
If Soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE... - Orchestra/classical

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