# Help - Trying to find a film I saw recently **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 18, 2014, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-trying-to-find-a-film-i-saw-recently/695800 "2014-08-18T02:40:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![AdamF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/adamf/32/6246_2.png) [@AdamF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AdamF)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2014, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-trying-to-find-a-film-i-saw-recently/695800/1 "2014-08-18T02:40:09Z")
It is a fairly recent science fiction film, set in a near future England. Children are given a test, based on which they are assigned a number (something like IQ) that determines how successful they will be in life. The film revolves around a boy (very low score) and a girl (very high score). Later-on, they figure out how to change one’s score, with world-changing consequences. Any help is appreciated. ---
**Author:** ![Accidental\_Martyr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2014, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-trying-to-find-a-film-i-saw-recently/695800/2 "2014-08-18T03:40:29Z")
_Gattaca_? > **[Gattaca](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gattaca)** > > Gattaca is a 1997 American dystopian science fiction thriller film written and directed by Andrew Niccol in his directorial debut. It stars Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman with Jude Law, Loren Dean, Ernest Borgnine, Gore Vidal, and Alan Arkin appearing in supporting roles. The film presents a biopunk vision of a future society driven by eugenics where potential children are conceived through genetic selection to ensure they possess the best hereditary traits of their parents. The film centers o The f... ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2014, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-trying-to-find-a-film-i-saw-recently/695800/3 "2014-08-18T04:06:14Z")
[Upside Down](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1374992/?ref_=nv_sr_1)? ---
**Author:** ![AdamF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/adamf/32/6246_2.png) [@AdamF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AdamF)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2014, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-trying-to-find-a-film-i-saw-recently/695800/4 "2014-08-19T01:07:40Z")
It is neither Upside Down nor Gattaca. I’m thinking that it could have been a short. ---
**Author:** ![Amberlei](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e56c9b/32.png) [@Amberlei](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amberlei)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2014, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-trying-to-find-a-film-i-saw-recently/695800/5 "2014-08-21T18:50:24Z")
I’ve absolutely no idea what film this is, but it sounds intriguing. I hope someone is able to figure out what it is. ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2014, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-trying-to-find-a-film-i-saw-recently/695800/6 "2014-08-21T19:41:11Z")
Is it one of these?: > **[List of dystopian films](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dystopian_films)** > > This is a list of dystopian films. Dystopian societies appear in many speculative fiction works and are often found within the science fiction and fantasy genres. Dystopias are often characterized by dehumanization, totalitarian governments, ruthless megacorporations, environmental disasters, or other characteristics associated with a dramatic decline in society. > The suave prison warden (Don Francks) focuses his interrogations on Weston - who had ironically refused a proposition by business ... ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2014, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-trying-to-find-a-film-i-saw-recently/695800/7 "2014-08-21T20:35:22Z")
Sounds kind of like the film adaptation of Vonnegut’s Harrison Bergeron, starring Sean Astin, but that movie didn’t take place in England, and Sean Astin’s character was the one with the high IQ (his family tries to hook him up with a low-IQ girl in the hopes that their children will be average, which is desired in the depicted society). ---
**Author:** ![AdamF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/adamf/32/6246_2.png) [@AdamF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AdamF)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2014, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-trying-to-find-a-film-i-saw-recently/695800/8 "2014-08-23T05:45:49Z")
I was looking for Darren Paul Fisher’s [Frequencies](http://badassdigest.com/2014/05/28/frequencies-review/).