Taglines: Welcome to America where one night a year all crime is legal.
It is March 21, 2023, hours before the Annual Purge. While television programs credit the Purge for record low unemployment and poverty levels, people across the country are preparing either to commit acts of violence or to barricade themselves indoors against the mayhem. Meanwhile, an anti-Purge resistance group intermittently hacks into television programs to broadcast their own messages that challenge the system.
In Los Angeles, Eva Sanchez, a waitress, rushes home to her daughter Cali and her terminally ill father Papa Rico. As they prepare to lock down for the evening, Papa Rico slips out of the apartment and into a waiting limo. He leaves behind a note explaining that he sold himself to a wealthy family as a Purge offering in exchange for $100,000 which will be transferred to Eva’s and Cali’s bank accounts following the Purge.
A couple named Shane and Liz are driving to the house of Shane’s sister to wait out the Purge. They stop at a market but when they return to their car, Shane is startled by a man with white facepaint, whose gang silently taunts them. They quickly drive away, but their car dies just as the Purge begins.
They discover that their fuel line was cut, and that the gang had tampered with the car. The aforementioned gang then shows up, forcing Shane and Liz to flee on foot. At the same time, police sergeant Leo Barnes goes out into the streets heavily armed in order to get revenge on the man who killed his son while driving under the influence of alcohol twelve months ago.
The Purge: Anarchy
Directed by: James DeMonaco
Starring: Frank Grillo, Carmen Ejogo, Zach Gilford, Kiele Sanchez, Zoë Soul, Justina Machado, John Beasley
Screenplay by: James DeMonaco
Production Design by: Brad Ricker
Cinematography by: Jacques Jouffret
Film Editing by: Vince Filippone, Todd E. Miller
Costume Design by: Hala Bahmet
Set Decoration by: Missy Parker
Music by: Nathan Whitehead
MPAA Rating: R for strong disturbing violence, and for language.
Studio: Universal Pictures
Release Date: July 18th, 2014
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