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A 25-minute long film based on the story, ''2081'', premiered at the Seattle International Film Festival in May 2009. The film was released on DVD on January 25, 2010.
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* [[Adaptation Expansion]]: One scene from an earlier novel into a short story, then the short story into a movie.
* [[Bureaucratically Arranged Marriage]]: In the film version, the government chooses spouses for people in order to increase the odds breeding average children.
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* {{spoiler|[[Shoot the Shaggy Dog]]}} {{spoiler|It turns out, Harrison [[Why Don't Ya Just Shoot Him|isn't bulletproof]]. And the government inadvertently wipes his death from his parent's memories.}}
** {{spoiler|And everybody else's memories. However inadvertent, it's still a favorable outcome which the government would no doubt support.}}
* [[Stealth Parody]]: In certain circles, the book has been interpreted as a grossly over-the-top satire of ''[[
* [[Stepford Smiler]]: most of the civils.
* [[Tall Poppy Syndrome]]: Deconstructed.
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