Idiocracy is a 2006 American film, a satirical science fiction comedy, directed by Mike Judge and starring Luke Wilson, Maya Rudolph, Dax Shepard, and Terry Crews. The film tells the story of two ordinary people taken into a top-secret military hibernation experiment to awaken in a dystopia wherein advertising, commercialism, and cultural anti-intellectualism run rampant and dysgenic pressure has resulted in a uniformly stupid human society devoid of intellectual curiosity, social responsibility, and coherent notions of justice and human rights. Despite its lack of a major theatrical release,... the film has achieved a cult following. During the prologue, a narrator explains the story's premise that in modern society, natural selection is indifferent toward intelligence, with the result that in the future, stupid people will greatly outnumber the intelligent. As the story begins, Corporal Joe Bauers , a U.S.
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| Release date: | September 1, 2006 |
| Directed by: | Mike Judge |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 84 Minutes |
| Producer: | Elysa Koplovitz, Mike Judge |
| Editor: | David Rennie |
| Music by: | Theodore Shapiro |
| Cinematography: | Tim Suhrstedt |
| Screenplay by: | Mike Judge, Etan Cohen |
| Estimated budget: | $4,000,000 |
| Genre: | Science Fiction, Comedy, Thriller, Adventure |