Atlas Shrugged II: The Strike (2012) on Netflix
PG-1320121h 51mDramaMysterySci-Fi
In 2018, as the economy collapses, Dagny Taggart tries to keep her family's railroad running. She and Henry Rearden hunt the inventor of a motor she found in an abandoned factory.
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Plot summary
It is 2018. Unemployment stands at 24 percent, gasoline costs $42 a gallon, and the railroads carry the country. With oil entrepreneur Ellis Wyatt gone, the nation faces a severe oil shortage, and the State Science Institute under Dr. Robert Stadler cannot replace his output. Dagny Taggart, who runs operations at Taggart Transcontinental, holds the railroad together while her brother James Taggart, the chief executive, sides with Washington. In the ruins of an old factory she finds a motor whose design no one can explain. Scientists, industrialists and entrepreneurs keep vanishing when the country needs them, and her oldest friend, Francisco d'Anconia, sends cryptic messages while running his family business into the ground. Quentin Daniels agrees to study the motor from an abandoned laboratory in Utah.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Atlas Shrugged II: The Strike (2012)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Producer John Aglialoro implied that hiring the cast of Part I for the sequel exceeded the movie's budget, saying “it's hard to lock people down” and noting that Taylor Schilling, who played Dagny in Part I, is “a bona fide movie star now”.
- The film was not screened for critics before its release, with producer John Aglialoro questioning “the integrity of the critics”, but it was screened for the conservative think-tank The Heritage Foundation and the libertarian Cato Institute.
