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Starring: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Alec Guinness, Anthony Daniels,
James Earl Jones
Director: George Lucas
I don’t want to overstate this by being overly generous in my praise of this well-known Lucas effort, so I will restrain myself and just say that it one of the greatest movies of all time and it re-defined the science fiction genre and has influenced adventure movies ever since.
Lucas chose the simple story of an evil empire trying to stamp out the final resistance to their rule of a solar system far, far away and a young farmer (Hamill), hungry for adventure, who finds himself involved through his desire to rescue a beautiful princess (Fisher). He is aided by a mysterious mentor (Guiness) and a charismatic smuggler (Ford), as well as couple of personable robots, known as droids. This group has to overcome legions of enemy troops, a space station with frightening powers, and Darth Vader, one of the most well-known, and imitated, movie villains there is.
If you haven’t see this movie, then congratulations on finally making parole; now go rent it! One of the classic cinematic efforts of the last fifty years, but, of course, I don’t want to gush like a cheerleader, so I will show restraint in my praise.
