Fortress (1992 film)

Fortress is a 1992 science fiction film directed by Stuart Gordon and shot at Warner Brothers Movie World in Queensland, Australia. The story takes place in a dystopian future. The main character in the movie, John Henry Brennick Christopher Lambert and his wife Karen B. Brennick Loryn Locklin are sent to a maximum security prison because they are expecting a second child, which is against strict onechild policies. It was followed by a sequel, FortressReEntry in 1999.

Brennick is caught, believing Karen to have escaped, and sentenced toyears in a private maximum security prison run by the MenTel Corporation. To maintain discipline all inmates are implanted with Intestinators which induce severe pain or death, for serious infractions, as a form of physical control and mental conditioning. The prison is corun by Director Poe Kurtwood Smith, who oversees Zed10, a computer that monitors daytoday activities and represents MenTel. The prison itself is located underground, in the middle of the desert, inside a deep pit that can only be crossed by a retractable bridge, while the prisoners are kept in overcrowded cells secured by laser walls.John is imprisoned with inmates Abraham, a model prisoner who works as Poes manservant and is awaiting parole DDay, a machine and demolitions expert Nino Gomez and Stiggs, a tough inmate who tries to extort John. John also learns his wife has been captured and is held in another level with his unborn child who, being illegal, is now officially owned by the MenTel Corporation and will be confiscated at birth. ........

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