They Live

Los Angeles streets, a homeless man's cardboard box. A construction site idle, a pair of sunglasses abandoned, a message scrawled on a billboard. Carpenter shoots this rebellion with a straightforward fury.

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John Carpenter directed They Live in 1988. See John Carpenter's full filmography, where to start with John Carpenter, or where to go after you've seen everything by John Carpenter.

They Live was released in 1988 (EN original-language production), with a runtime of 93 minutes.