Movie ID Filter: Colored Bodies?

June 4, 2011 8:06 PM

Asking for a friend: vaguely remembered movie filter. Something about bodies and colors...

- Futuristic setting, although friend (in her early 20s) thinks that the technology in the film looked "really old"
- Bodies were tagged with colors and depending on their color something happened to them
- Very serious female doctor or nurse
- Strong medical/anatomical themes/visuals
- Perhaps a kid (or someone/something) causes a mix up with the body labels and something bad happens
Thanks!

posted by bug138 to media & arts (5 answers total)

A reach, but could it be Logan's Run?
posted by bluedaisy at 8:09 PM on June 4, 2011 [1 favorite]

The made-for-TV version of Brave New World?
posted by Nomyte at 8:16 PM on June 4, 2011

In Overdrawn at the Memory Bank, a 1983 public television adaptation of a John Varley story, a child on a field trip mischievously switches a routing tag for someone's body and sends them off for sexual reassignment. The switch occurs at 22:04 to 22:07 in this video.

The film was rightly later torn to shreds on Mystery Science Theater 3000.
posted by adipocere at 8:26 PM on June 4, 2011

Amazing, adipocere, we would have never gotten it in a million years!

Watching now, it is amazingly bad.
posted by bug138 at 9:22 PM on June 4, 2011

Just chiming in to say that I love the MST3k-ization of Overdrawn At The Memory Bank.

"Never show a good movie in the middle of your bad movie."
posted by annathea at 9:40 PM on June 4, 2011 [1 favorite]