Shades (1982)
1999: A tower block contains youths ‘bought off’ by the government, in a climate of microchip-created endless leisure, who experience (often pornographic) virtual reality-style fantasies by donning the titular ‘shades’, until a 1980s theme party (they predicted that right, at least) leads to ideology and political thought seeping in under the dazed lifestyle.
- Date of release
- 1982-05-11
- Director
- Bill Hays
Casting
- Tracey Childs — Sheena
- Francesca Gonshaw — Julie
- Neil Pearson — Adam
- Stuart MacKenzie — Joe
- Emily Moore — Kate
- Shelagh McLeod — Diana
- Tony Benn — Self (archive footage)
- Helen Caldicott — Self (archive footage)
- Michael Feldman — Tony
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