Independent Films, Film Profiles

Moon 44
by Roland Emmerich

Moon 44 is a 1990 science fiction, action film from Centropolis Film Productions, directed by Roland Emmerich and starring Michael Paré and Lisa Eichhorn.In the year 2038, prisoners are sent as a last resort to defend a corporation’s last mining colony from attacks by another corporation’s robots."Robots mining priceless chemicals are being hijacked from Moon 44. The Galactic Mining Corporation send their Internal Affairs Investigator, Felix Stone (Michael Pare) to track down the hijacker. Stone goes undercover as one of a group of Company prisoners being sent to Moon 44 to pilot the special helicopters, unaware as are the other prisoners that most pilots who trained before them crashed and died...and that if Moon 44 is attacked, the men will be sacrificed and the robots saved!"