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Synopsis: 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.
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Director(s): James DeMonaco
Production: Universal Pictures
  1 win & 6 nominations.
 
IMDB:
5.7
Metacritic:
41
Rotten Tomatoes:
38%
R
Year:
2013
85 min
$64,400,000
Website
8,488 Views


Mr. Halverson?

Go f*** yourself.

Sorry,

I can't hear you.

It was very nice.

Oh, good.

I'm glad you all

had a grand time.

Didn't you hear what I said?

No more killing tonight!

Is it that hard

to understand?

Oh, my...

Now get the hell

out of my house.

Wait.

Are you going

to be okay?

Thank you.

Good luck.

Just after 7:
00 AM, March 22nd,

the Annual Purge

has just concluded.

This is your American

morning news program.

And reports are coming in

from all around the country

as police, firefighters

and paramedics...

The New Founding Fathers

have released an early statement saying

this was the most

successful Purge yet.

I am walking...

I should say "stumbling"

through downtown Los Angeles,

and there are literally

bodies everywhere.

I witnessed a group of young men

breaking into

the tenement next to me,

and they were

dragging people out

and just executing

them on the street.

Hundreds have gathered in Times Square

for a public vigil

thanking all those

who were killed last night

for their sacrifice to make

this country a safer place.

They are turning people away

from emergency rooms

in Brownsville

as there is simply

no more room.

The markets were up this morning

as both gun and

home security system

quarterly sales

reports were released

announcing profits

in both sectors.

We have 364 long days until the next Purge.

So let's get all our Purge

talk and analysis in today

while our thoughts

are still fresh.

From what I've been reading, it seems

like Dallas had the most participants.

I did get a chance to see some

live surveillance footage

out of Dallas, Forest Lawn,

and there had to be 200

people in the town square

Purging at the same time.

Never saw

anything like this.

I lost my two sons last night.

My boys.

Yeah, I was

a proud American.

Not anymore.

This country has taken

everything from me.

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James DeMonaco

James DeMonaco (born 1969) is an American screenwriter, director, and producer. He is best known for creating the Purge franchise, writing and directing The Purge (2013), The Purge: Anarchy (2014), and The Purge: Election Year (2016).DeMonaco's first produced screenplay was the Robin Williams comedy Jack (1996), directed by Academy Award-winner Francis Ford Coppola. more…

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