A masterwork of 20th-century literature, Fahrenheit 451 is narrated here by Academy Award-winning actor Tim Robbins in an adaptation of Bradbury’s internationally acclaimed novel.
Guy Montag is a fireman. The firemen in his world start fires rather than extinguish them, where TV rules and literature disappears. A printed book, along with the houses where they are hidden, is his most illegal of commodities. Mildred, who spends all day watching television, never asks why Montag destroys the world with his destructive actions. As he meets Clarisse, his eccentric neighbor, he is introduced to a past where people didn’t live in fear and to a present where books are preferred over mindless television chatter. In the wake of Mildred’s suicide attempt and Clarisse’s sudden disappearance, Montag questions everything about himself. Fireman hides books in his house and runs for his life when the thieves discover his thefts.