Reception
Nineteen Eighty-Four received a generally positive critical reaction. Review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a 79% "fresh" rating, based on 14 reviews. Roger Ebert awarded the film 3.5/4 stars, writing that it "penetrates much more deeply into the novel's heart of darkness" than previous adaptations, and describing Hurt as "the perfect Winston Smith."
MGM currently owns the rights to this film after it took over Orion Pictures (which took over Atlantic Releasing in 1988) in 1998.
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