The Purge

One night a year, all crime is legal. Survive the night.

Set in 2022, when America has come up with a unique and bizarre plan to deal with their terrible crime problem. The solution is simply to make crime legal for 12 hours, and let people kill whoever they think deserves killing. (Only Hollywood could come up with an idea like that.) One family takes in a homeless person, whom the crowds outside want to kill. The family decides to make a stand to defend their guest... will they make it through the night?

86 minutes.
No persons under 16 (Violence).
Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller.

Showtimes

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Credits

Cast	Ethan Hawke, Lena Headey, Max Burkholder, Adelaide Kane, Edwin Hodge, Rhys Wakefield
Director	James DeMonaco
Screenplay	James DeMonaco
Music	Nathan Whitehead
Cinematography	Jacques Jouffret
Editing	Peter Gvozdas
Sound formats	Dolby Digital, Sony Dynamic Digital Sound, Datasat
SA distributor	UIP
Made in	2013
Produced by	Blumhouse Productions, Platinum Dunes, Universal Pictures International, Universal Pictures, Why Not Productions

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Film and Publications Board (FPB) Report (SA)

Genre	Drama
Language	Infrequent and moderate
Nudity	None
Sex	None
Violence	Strong, realistic
Prejudice	None
Blasphemy	None
Drug abuse	None
Comments	It's 2022 in America and society has come up with a novel concept of getting rid of crime and evil doers in society. One a year every citizen has the right to purge whoever they deem worthy of being purged, that is till you get a family like the Sandins who realise that everything is not as black and white as it appears to be.
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ScreenIt Report (USA)

Sex / Nudity	Violence	Blood / Gore / Gross
Guns / Weapons	Profanity	Alcohol / Drugs
Smoking	Disrespectful / Bad Attitude	Imitative Behaviour
Frightening / Tense Scenes	Jump Scenes	Tense Family Scenes
Music (Scary/Tense)	Music (Inappropriate)	Topics to talk about

CommonSenseMedia Report (USA)

Suggested age limit 16 +	Positive messages	Positive role models
Violence	Sex	Language
Consumerism	Drinking, drugs, smoking

Ratings

Scale (Max)	20
What the Critics say
ScreenIt C. Fuchs I found this flick moderately intriguing.	10
Metacritic.com 33 critics	8
Rottentomatoes critics 130 critics	10
Rottentomatoes tomatometer Tomatometer Half social allegory, half home-invasion thriller, The Purge attempts to use thriller formula to make an intelligent point -- but ultimately only ends up sinking in numbing violence and tired clich�s.	8
Movie Review Query Engine MRQE critics	9
CommonSenseMedia Staff evaluation	10
What the People say
Internet 36899 Netizens The Purge, great concept....not so great film	11
Average .. 47%	9