Harrison Bergeron (film)

Harrison Bergeron is a 1995 cable television movie film loosely adapted from Kurt Vonneguts 1961 short story of the same name. It was produced for Showtime and first screened on August 13, 1995. It was released to VHS in 1998.

Harrison Bergeron lives in a typical suburban town in the year 2053. The audience is told that after the second American Revolutiona war begun due to an ongoing economic depression that was a result of a combination of technological advancement and a widening disparity between the very rich and the very poorit was mandated that all people be equal in all things. To this end, the social norm of this society has become egalitarianism. Citizens strive to be of equal wealth, intelligence, athletic prowess and social status to all around them. Through a process of selective breeding, mankind is perfecting the perfectly average human being. What is not accomplished through arranged marriages is made up for through technological means, the most prominent of which are only showing mind numbing shows on TV, and a headband device worn by all citizens which modulates intelligence, dialing up or down a persons IQ in order to arrive at a perfect 100.There are limits to the success of the devices, however, and Harrison Bergeron is one such case. He is a total failure in school, consistently receiving As C is the desired grade. Even though he has been held back four years and his headband is consistently modified to dampen his intelligence, he still continues to excel to the embarrassment of him and his family. ........

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