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Moon 44  (1989)
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(Foreign Titles)
Nomination Year: 1993
SYNOPSIS: The convicts in a penal colony on a distant moon are forced to mine a special metal. The only way they can do this is (for some reason) to fly these mini-copters through treacherous cloud-filled canyons with zero visibility. And the only way to do that (for some reason) is to rely on telemetry given to them over the radio by young boys back in the HQ. Actually, all the "pilots" seem to do is steer: the "lifelines" control their speed (for some reason).
Bryan Cassidy
Smithee Award Nominations
Acting Appropriately Stupid
NOW Who's F*cked?
One of the more brutal of the fliers corners his "lifeline" in the showers one evening and begins to humiliate him in front of the rest of the guys. As everyone else files out, he forces the kid to remain behind so he can rape and sodomize him. Now how smart is that? This kid is his only way of navigating those canyons. To (literally) add insult to injury, the con taunts and verbally abuses the kid as he's flying the next mission. You can no doubt guess what happens next: KaBOOM!!!
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Directors
Director Claim to Fame
Roland Emmerich went on to direct art-house fare like Stargate, Independence Day, 1998's Godzilla, and the heartwarming The Day After Tomorrow 
Cast
Actor Character Claim to Fame
Michael ParĂ© <Not Yet in Database> Though he played Lt. Ray Bozeman in Gone and Bull Pruitt in Hope Floats, I will always know him as the Travolta-like jock Tony Villicana from "The Greatest American Hero." 
Lisa Eichhorn <Not Yet in Database>  
Dean Devlin <Not Yet in Database>  
Brian Thompson <Not Yet in Database>  
Malcolm McDowell <Not Yet in Database> "Alex" in A Clockwork Orange; "Soran" in Star Trek: Generations; "H.G. Wells" in Time After Time; famous voice, famous face 
Stephen Geoffreys <Not Yet in Database> "Evil Ed" from Fright Night; strange-looking weasely guy. 
Leon Rippy <Not Yet in Database>  
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