4.7
“Witness the birth of an American tradition.”
The First Purge (2018)
July 4, 20181h 37mEN
6.0
4.2K votes
Overview
To push the crime rate below one percent for the rest of the year, the New Founding Fathers of America test a sociological theory that vents aggression for one night in one isolated community. But when the violence of oppressors meets the rage of the others, the contagion will explode from the trial-city borders and spread across the nation.
Director
Gerard McMurrayWriters
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Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
$13.0M
Revenue
$137.1M
Production Companies
Platinum DunesBlumhouse ProductionsUniversal PicturesMan in a Tree Productions
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Gimly
6.0_The Purge_ has come a long way since its inception. Originally used as nothing more than an excuse to explain away "Why don't they just call the cops?" in your average home-invasion movie, the original _Purge_ movie had implied classism for the meat of it, and then an actual call to class division right at the end. Since then, the classism, and racism in American society has become a focal B-story to the _Purge_ movies, and now we're in 2018 for the prequel - _The First Purge_ - and those issues are now the whole point of the movie. Some might say that it's because the movies have lost any se…
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