''Spoiler'' is a 1998 American

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directed by Jeff Burr and starring

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and

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. It takes place in New York in the far future.

Plot summary

In a futuristic, cyber-punk

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, convicted felon Roger Mason (

) is serving a sentence and is locked away in a high security prison facility, where

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are applied to some of the inmates, including Mason himself, to keep them in a state of

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. Mason, despite all the security measures applied at his confinement facility, manages to escape repeatedly to see his daughter, which is the only reason why he's making attempt after attempt to break free. However, the authorities are able to catch him and bring him back every time to serve even a longer sentence as punishment for his attempts to escape. Since he's being cryonically frozen to serve his time for years at a time, he remains practically the same age while his daughter grows older normally. As more and more time keeps being added to his original sentence, his escape attempts become more of an obsession rather than a goal.

Cast

as Roger Mason *

as Woman #1 * Bryan Genesse as Bounty #1 *

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as the Captain *

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as Renny * Steven Schub as Phil * Stewart Finlay-McLennan as Lory* *

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as Clemets *Sarah Freeman as Maggie** *

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as Uncle Hutchy *

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as the Priest *

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as Jillian/Jennifer * Willard E. Pugh as Bounty #2 *

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as Sergeant *

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as The Attendant *Credited as Stewart McLennan. **Credited as Sarah Rayne.

Release

''Spoiler'' was released directly to video in VHS format on 15 September 1998 in the United States and on 30 November 2000 in Germany. It has also been released on

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on 12 March 2010 in Germany.

References

External links

* http://www.new-video.de/film-spoiler-verdammt-im-eis/ (German) * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Spoiler (Film) 1998 films Films directed by Jeff Burr New York City in popular culture American science fiction action films 1990s English-language films 1990s American films