Shades

Name: Shades
Released: 1982-05-11
Cast: Tracey Childs, Francesca Gonshaw, Neil Pearson, Stuart MacKenzie, Emily Moore

1982, English. Directed by Bill Hays.

1999: A tower block contains youths ‘bought off’ by the government, in a climate of microchip-created endless leisure, who experience (often pornographic) virtual reality-style fantasies by donning the titular ‘shades’, until a 1980s theme party (they predicted that right, at least) leads to ideology and political thought seeping in under the dazed lifestyle.

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Language: English
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Released: 11 May 1982
Written by: Stephen Lowe

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Shades (1982) was directed by Bill Hays and stars Tracey Childs, Francesca Gonshaw, Neil Pearson.