LSC Event Descriptions

Special FREE encore show September 25, 2006

September 22, 2006

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Rated R
85 minutes

 LSC Classics Presents:
District B13 (2004)
September 25, 2006 at 8:00 pm in 26-100 (FREE!)
September 22, 2006 at 7:30 and 10:30 pm in 10-250

The plot involves a futuristic France where the worst ghettos have been walled off from the rest of society, their schools shut down, and the police force evacuated. The people in power simply want to ignore the plight of the disenfranchised, but this becomes difficult to do when the most notorious gang, led by the wild-eyed Taha (Bibi Naceri), gets its hands on a nuclear warhead and proceeds to demand a 20-million-Euro ransom, with the city of Paris as its hostage. Enter Damien (Raffaelli), a one-man police strike force, who has 24 hours to disarm the missile. To help him navigate the war zone of District B13, he springs a vigilante antihero, Leito (Belle), from jail. Leito has personal reasons for taking down the crime lord: Taha has turned Leito's adolescent sister into his junkie pet. As the ultra-athletic duo go up against Taha's gangster army, they repeatedly (and conveniently) lose their guns, and are forced to improvise, thrashing goons with steering wheels, cinder blocks, and their foreheads. [www.rottentomatoes.com]

"A ridiculously entertaining action flick that's loaded with style, wit and jaw-dropping feats of physical prowess."
      -- Eric D. Snider, ericdsnider.com. Read this review.

Sponsored by MIT France. In French with English subtitles.

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