“A movie that was originally a comedy, but became a documentary.” – Urban Dictionary

U.S. Army librarian Joe Bauers (Luke Wilson) takes part in an experimental government hibernation program that goes afoul and results in Joe reawakening five hundred years later in a painfully stupid dystopia in the cult comedy Idiocracy (2006). The inept authorities are unable to identify Joe, leading to a correctional facility renaming him “Not Sure” before subjecting him to an aptitude test. Despite being of average intelligence in his own time, he returns the highest IQ in the world from this basic aptitude test in the year 2505. Soon the President of the United States, Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho (Terry Crews) tasks “Not Sure” with fixing the country’s food supply, economy and massive dust storms within a week under threat of imprisonment. 

Directed by Mike Judge (Beavis and Butthead, Office Space), Idiocracy was given a limited release by 20th Century Fox in 2006. The studio seemingly intentionally buried the film, providing virtually no movie trailers, ads or press kits, and resulting in a less than $500,000 box office in its limited theatrical run. However, the film has since gone on to garner a devoted cult fanbase with its parody of dysgenics, corporate sponsored politics and anti-intellectualism. Idiocracy also stars Maya Rudolph as Rita the sex worker and Dax Shepard as Frito the Lawyer.   

An American Idiot 250th Semiquincentennial Preshow starts at 6:30 pm.

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