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Hardware (1990)

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Hardware

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    In a post nuclear apocalyptic futuristic world, space marine Mo Baxter buys from a nomadic scavenger a robot head, with the intent of giving it to his reclusive girlfriend Jill as a Christmas gift, which Jill can use for her sculptures which she makes from scrap metal. At Jill's apartment in a rundown high rise apartment building, Mo receives a transmission from the scrap merchant dealer Alvy concerning the robot head and asks Mo to meet with him. Mo leaves Jill's Apartment to meet Alvy, but, Mo finds Alvy has been murdered and is horrified to find important information on the robot head that Alvy looked up online and that the robot head is the M.A.R.K. 13, a robot assassin created by the government to eliminate and reduce the world's population as the world's population has become highly overpopulated and that the M.A.R.K. 13 can rebuild itself and Mo realizes Jill's life in great danger and all hell breaks loose when the M.A.R.K. 13 reactivates and rebuilds itself and attacks Jill and goes on a violent rampage in Jill's apartment. As Mo races back to Jill's apartment to save her, a lone and terrified Jill who is trapped in her apartment with no means of escape is forced to fight for her life as the unstoppable M.A.R.K. 13 sets out to complete it's mission and terminate it's target at all costs.



    No, the US version is not uncut. A few plot scenes are missing and in order to obtain an r-rating a few cuts had to be made to the scene where a guy is ripped apart. The UK-Version is uncut.

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  • How long is Hardware?
    1 hour and 34 minutes
  • When was Hardware released?
    September 14, 1990
  • What is the IMDb rating of Hardware?
    5.9 out of 10
  • Who stars in Hardware?
    Dylan McDermott, Stacey Travis, and John Lynch
  • Who wrote Hardware?
    Richard Stanley, Kevin O'Neill, Steve MacManus, and Michael Fallon
  • Who directed Hardware?
    Richard Stanley
  • Who was the composer for Hardware?
    Simon Boswell
  • Who was the producer of Hardware?
    JoAnne Sellar and Paul Trijbits
  • Who was the executive producer of Hardware?
    Harvey Weinstein, Robert Weinstein, Nik Powell, Stephen Woolley, and Trix Worrell
  • Who was the cinematographer for Hardware?
    Steven Chivers
  • Who was the editor of Hardware?
    Derek Trigg
  • Who are the characters in Hardware?
    Nomad, Angry Bob, Moses Baxter, Shades, Alvy, Jill, Vernon, Lincoln Wineberg Jr., Newscaster, Premier Boelgaxof, and others
  • What is the plot of Hardware?
    The head of a cyborg reactivates, rebuilds itself, and goes on a violent rampage in a space marine's girlfriend's apartment.
  • What was the budget for Hardware?
    $1.5 million
  • How much did Hardware earn at the worldwide box office?
    $5.73 million
  • How much did Hardware earn at the US box office?
    $5.73 million
  • What is Hardware rated?
    R
  • What genre is Hardware?
    Horror, Sci-Fi, and Thriller
  • How many awards has Hardware won?
    3 awards
  • How many awards has Hardware been nominated for?
    7 nominations

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