Video Review

DAYBREAK (1993)

Details Release Date: May 08, 1993; Genre: Sci-fi; With: Cuba Gooding Jr. and Moira Kelly; Distributor: HBO

In the New York of the future, uniformed youths patrol trash-strewn streets, helping cops round up disease victims, who are then quarantined in hell-hole prison camps. Elsewhere in the wasteland, a teenage girl (Kelly) discovers love -- and a purpose -- with the leader (Gooding) of a ragtag rebel group. Their desperate romance helps relieve the grimness of this cautionary tale. Yet the movie's real strength is its unblinking vision of an all-too-imaginable future.

Originally posted Oct 22, 1993 Published in issue #193 Oct 22, 1993 Order article reprints
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