MOVIE · 1992

Fortress

ActionAdventureCrimeSci-FiThriller95 min

In a future where a second child is illegal, former soldier John Brennick (Christopher Lambert) and his pregnant wife Karen are sent to a private prison buried deep underground. Inside the Fortress, inmates are watched by cameras, monitored by dream readers, and controlled by implants that can trigger pain or death at a command. Kurtwood Smith’s prison director runs the place like a corporation, while Jeffrey Combs turns up among the facility’s unnerving technicians. With Karen’s pregnancy advancing, John starts looking for a way out of a system built to break bodies and enforce population control.