Directed by:
James DeMonacoScreenplay:
James DeMonacoCinematography:
Jacques JouffretComposer:
Nathan WhiteheadCast:
Ethan Hawke, Lena Headey, Tony Oller, Rhys Wakefield, Adelaide Kane, Edwin Hodge, Chris Mulkey, Max Burkholder, Alicia Vela-Bailey, Peter Gvozdas, Tisha French (more)VOD (3)
Plots(1)
In an America wracked by crime and overcrowded prisons, the government has sanctioned an annual 12-hour period in which any and all criminal activity-including murder-becomes legal. The police can't be called. Hospitals suspend help. It's one night when the citizenry regulates itself without thought of punishment. On this night plagued by violence and an epidemic of crime, one family wrestles with the decision of who they will become when a stranger comes knocking. When an intruder breaks into James Sandin's (Ethan Hawke) gated community during the yearly lockdown, he begins a sequence of events that threatens to tear a family apart. Now, it is up to James, his wife, Mary (Lena Headey), and their kids to make it through the night without turning into the monsters from whom they hide. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Ethan Hawke
USA
Best movies:
Dead Poets Society (1989)
Lord of War (2005)
Gattaca (1997)
Lena Headey
Best movies:
The Long Firm (2004) (TV movie)
The Remains of the Day (1993)
Aberdeen (2000)
Tony Oller
USA
Best movies:
The Purge (2013)
Beneath the Darkness (2011)
Rhys Wakefield
Australia
Best movies:
The Black Balloon (2008)
Cardboard Boxer (2016)
Endless Love (2014)
Adelaide Kane
Australia
Best movies:
Goats (2012)
Into the Dark (2018) (series)
The Purge (2013)
Edwin Hodge
USA
Best movies:
Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995)
Injustice (2021)
The Tomorrow War (2021)
Chris Mulkey
USA
Best movies:
Rain Man (1988)
Whiplash (2014)
First Blood (1982)
Max Burkholder
USA
Best movies:
Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends: Destination Imagination (2008) (TV movie)
Astro Boy (2009)
The Rainbow Tribe (2008)
Alicia Vela-Bailey
USA
Best movies:
Avatar (2009)
Avatar: The Way of Water (2022)
Spy (2015)
Peter Gvozdas
Best movies:
The Purge (2013)
Tisha French
USA
Nathan Clarkson
Best movies:
Past Lives (2023)
The Purge: Anarchy (2014)
Wolves (2016)
Chester Lockhart
Best movies:
Into the Dark (2018) (series)
The Purge (2013)
Karen Strassman
USA
Best movies:
Death and the Maiden (1994)
A Good Year (2006)
Love Live! The School Idol Movie (2015)
John Weselcouch
Best movies:
Like Crazy (2011)
The Purge (2013)
Summer '03 (2018)
Tom Yi
Best movies:
The Greatest Hits (2024)
Bridesmaids (2011)
Player 5150 (2008)