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They Live 1988

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They Live
Cast
Roddy Piper, Keith David, Meg Foster, Peter Jason, Susan Barnes, Sy Richardson, John Lawrence
Director
John Carpenter
Producer
Larry Franco
Writer
Ray Nelson, John Carpenter
Duration
01:37:00
Release
Friday November 4 1988
Genres
Drama, Comedy
Distributor
MCA/Universal Pictures

Synopsis

A homeless drifter discovers a reason for the ever-widening gap between the rich and the poor: a conspiracy by non-human aliens who have infiltrated American society in the guise of wealthy yuppies. With the help of special sunglasses that reveal the aliens' true faces and their subliminal messages ("marry and reproduce," "submit to authority"), our hero tries to stop the invasion. This satire of Reaganomics and the "greed is good" era also has one of the funniest (and longest) fight scenes in American cinema.


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