History Film / CityLimits

Not to be confused with the early 1980s Creator/{{Citytv}} overnight program that was an ObviousBeta for Creator/MuchMusic, and was the very first appearance of Creator/MikeMyers as [[Film/WaynesWorld Wayne Campbell]].

Director Aaron Lipstadt and writer/actor Don Keith Opper received critical praise for their 1982 science fiction BMovie ''[[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083557/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_37 Android]]'', starring Creator/KlausKinski. The film earned them a Saturn Award nomination. With that cachet, the duo worked on their second feature, ''City Limits''.

Director Aaron Lipstadt and writer/actor Don Keith Opper received critical praise for their 1982 science fiction BMovie ''[[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083557/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_37 Android]]'', starring Klaus Kinski. The film earned them a Saturn Award nomination. With that cachet, the duo worked on their second feature, ''City Limits''.

Fifteen years from now, the world is lit by widely spaced 40 watt light bulbs and populated by people who wear weird clothes. A mysterious plague that's OnlyFatalToAdults has devastated the world and left the surviving children to grow up on their own. The children have created a new society with only comic books and other old-world pop-culture as their guide. In this dystopia, your hero Lee (the cowboy guy with a cow skull helmet) decides to go to the big city (Los Angeles) to prove himself and join the most famous biker gang around -- the "L.A. Clippers". He soon ends up a pawn in a battle between the Clippers and a rival gang led by the foppier brother of Alex from ''Film/AClockworkOrange''.

Meanwhile Wickings (Creator/KimCattrall), Bolo (Norbert Weisser) and Carver (Robby Benson), part of the Sunya corporation (a group that reinvented the [[MegaCorp corporation]] after the apocalypse), move into town and attempt to exploit the gangs for commercial profit in an attempt to rebuild LA. "What commerce?" you ask, seeings how it's after the apocalypse and all. Well, repeat to yourself "it's just a show, and I should really just relax." Wickings tries to bring the Clippers to the negotiating table, but [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Bolo and his higher-ups]] simply stage an attack on the gang, enslaving most of them except for the few that Lee helps escape.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Lee's girlfriend disappears from the movie after her scene with him in the water tower.
** She's not his girlfriend; she's just someone he met along the way.

* ApocalypticLogistics: Everyone's bikes are in great shape given that it's been 15 years since the last time anyone made or distributed parts or fuel - or even been in a position to teach anyone how to perform basic maintenance.

* ExtyYearsFromNow: "Fifteen years from now", or 2003 according to some taglines (which is not 15 years from when the movie came out).

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* TheStoolPigeon: Wickings tries to blow the whistle on Bolo's inethical recruitment methods, only for Sunya's out of town superiors to arbitrarily revoke the directive against violence and forced labor and say that they are to recruit workers by any means necessary.

* ExtyYearsFromNow: "Fifteen years from now", or 2003 according to some taglines.

Director Aaron Lipstadt and writer/actor Don Keith Opper received critical praise for their 1982 science fiction BMovie ''[[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083557/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_37 Android]]'', starring Klaus Kinski. The film earned them a Saturn Award nomination. With that cache, the duo worked on their second feature, ''City Limits''.

Meanwhile Wickings (Kim Cattrall), Bolo (Norbert Weisser) and Carver (Robby Benson), part of the Sunya corporation (a group that reinvented the [[MegaCorp corporation]] after the apocalypse), move into town and attempt to exploit the gangs for commercial profit in an attempt to rebuild LA. "What commerce?" you ask, seeings how it's after the apocalypse and all. Well, repeat to yourself "it's just a show, and I should really just relax." Wickings tries to bring the Clippers to the negotiating table, but [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Bolo and his higher-ups]] simply stage an attack on the gang, enslaving most of them except for the few that Lee helps escape.

* WrenchWench: Yogi (Rae Dawn Chong).

Fifteen years from now, the world is lit by widely spaced 40 watt light bulbs and populated by people who wear weird clothes. A mysterious plague that's OnlyFatalToAdults has devastated the world and left the surviving children to grow up on their own. The children have created a new society with only comic books and other old-world pop-culture as their guide. In this dystopia, your hero Lee (the cowboy guy with a cow skull helmet) decides to go to the big city (Los Angeles) to prove himself and join the most famous biker gang around -- the "L.A. Clippers". He soon ends up a pawn in a battle between the Clippers and a rival gang led by the foppier brother of Alex from Clockwork Orange.

Meanwhile Wickings (Kim Cattrall) and Bolo (Robby Benson), part of the Sunya corporation (a group that reinvented the [[MegaCorp corporation]] after the apocalypse), move into town and attempt to exploit the gangs for commercial profit in an attempt to rebuild LA. "What commerce?" you ask, seeings how it's after the apocalypse and all. Well, repeat to yourself "it's just a show, and I should really just relax." Wickings tries to bring the Clippers to the negotiating table, but [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Bolo and his higher-ups]] simply stage an attack on the gang, enslaving most of them except for the few that Lee helps escape.

* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Bolo and the Sunya corporation.

* HighHeelFaceTurn: Wicker (Kim Cattrall), an honorable Sunya executive who joins the Clippers after Bolo crosses the MoralEventHorizon.

Meanwhile Wickings (Kim Cattrall) and Bolo (Robbie Benson), part of the Sunya corporation (a group that reinvented the [[MegaCorp corporation]] after the apocalypse), move into town and attempt to exploit the gangs for commercial profit in an attempt to rebuild LA. "What commerce?" you ask, seeings how it's after the apocalypse and all. Well, repeat to yourself "it's just a show, and I should really just relax." Wickings tries to bring the Clippers to the negotiating table, but [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Bolo and his higher-ups]] simply stage an attack on the gang, enslaving most of them except for the few that Lee helps escape.

Anyway, Robbie Benson's shady business that is selling who-knows-what to who-knows-who comes under attack once cow-skull guy convinces the assorted biker types to team up with his surrogate father Albert -- played by an embarrassed [[Creator/JamesEarlJones James "I needed to pay the rent" Earl Jones]]. The RagtagBunchOfMisfits stages a counterattack on Sunya in a finale that will shock and surprise amnesiacs and people who have just arrived on planet Earth.

* VideoCredits: Which remind you which of the characters survived the film by giving (Actor) ''is/was'' (Character), except for the [[SpecialGuest Special Appearance]] credits for Robbie Benson and James Earl Jones.

Director Aaron Lipstadt and writer/actor Don Keith Opper received critical praise for his 1982 science fiction BMovie ''[[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083557/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_37 Android]]'', starring Klaus Kinski. The film earned them a Saturn Award nomination. With that cache, the duo worked on their second feature, ''City Limits''.

Anyway, Robbie Benson's shady business that is selling who-knows-what to who-knows-who comes under attack once cow-skull guy convinces the assorted biker types to team up with his surrogate father Albert -- played by an embarrassed [[Creator/JamesEarlJones James "I needed to pay the rent" Earl Jones]]. The RagtagBunchOfMisfits stages a counterattack on Sunya in a finale that will shock and surprise amnesiacs and people who have just arrived on planet earth.

Meanwhile Wickings (Kim Cattrall) and Bolo (Robbie Benson), part of the Sunya corporation (a group that reinvented the [[MegaCorp corporation]] after the apocalypse), move into town and attempt to exploit the gangs for commercial profit in an attempt to rebuild LA. 'What commerce?' you ask, seeings how it's after the apocalypse and all. Well, repeat to yourself 'it's just a show, and I should really just relax.' Wickings tries to bring the Clippers to the negotiating table, but [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Bolo and his higher-ups]] simply stage an attack on the gang, enslaving most of them except for the few that Lee helps escape.

Anyway, Robbie Benson's shady business that is selling who-knows-what to who-knows-who comes under attack once cow-skull guy convinces the assorted biker types to team up with his surrogate father Albert -- played by an embarrassed [[Creator/JamesEarlJones James 'I needed to pay the rent' Earl Jones]]. The RagtagBunchOfMisfits stages a counterattack on Sunya in a finale that will shock and surprise amnesiacs and people who have just arrived on planet earth.

For the ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' episode see ''[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S04E03CityLimits here]]''.

Anyway, Robbie Benson's shady business that is selling who-knows-what to who-knows-who comes under attack once cow-skull guy convinces the assorted biker types to team up with his surrogate father Albert -- played by an embarrassed James 'I needed to pay the rent' Earl Jones. The RagtagBunchOfMisfits stages a counterattack on Sunya in a finale that will shock and surprise amnesiacs and people who have just arrived on planet earth.

* OnlyFatalToAdults

* TeenageWasteland

* CapuletCounterpart: Wicker (Kim Cattrall), an honorable Sunya executive who joins the Clippers after Bolo crosses the MoralEventHorizon.