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Post Another one from a reader
I got another e-mail today from a reader asking for help IDing an old, half-remembered film. The bit with the colored crystaline implants (see below) reminds me of Logan's Run, naturally, but that clearly isn't the movie she's talking about, since nothing much else in her description fits. Have a look, and see if anything strikes you as familiar:

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It had a made for TV look and may have been intended as a pilot. It was probably made in the 80's or 90's. I caught only part of it but this is what I remember--

There's been some kind of disaster. The normal humans live in some kind of sheltered/shielded city or base. The disaster seemed to have done something to people genetically. They had crystals implanted in their chest that showed a different color based on a person's genetic profile. Greens were only allowed to marry greens, blues were only allowed to marry blues, etc.

Outside the city there were mad, violent mutants (not that they were called that, but I can't remember the name the film used).

One of the main characters was part mutant (his crystal was black, making him the only one in the city). His father had apparently caused whatever created the mutants. I'm guessing this was the slightly-mad-scientist-tries-to-do-something-good-and-has-it-go-terribly-wrong story. This character is described as half whatever the guys outside the city are called. He's very large and strong and seems to have a high pain threshold (in one scene, a doctor does some kind of scan and says his stress and pain levels are all at what would be incredibly high levels for the normal humans. He says it's normal for [the mutants]. Another character hearing this says, "No wonder they're so cranky." He is ordered to get some R&R and goes to the cafeteria with a coworker [small, Asian man, I think (I'm trying to give as many helpful details as possible)]. This allows for plot exposition on the crystals since most of the groups seem to be sitting with others of their color).

The basic plot seemed to involve rescuing a family who seemed to live outside the city/base (some things made it seem the disaster was very recent, enough that there were still scattered groups outside the city who had just woken up to find themselves in need of rescue; other things suggested their world had been like this for years). They seemed uncertain where exactly the family would be. The big, half-mutant guy and his coworkers were a group that was sent out to rescue them.

The medical scan and cafeteria break happened after they'd made a brief return from searching and fighting mutants. The half-mutant guy was upset about being told he needed to take a break before he could go out again. He 1) Seemed to have zero social life and seemed to feel the only purpose of R&R was to remind him of that, 2) Between the half-mutant thing and lack of social life, going out and rescuing people (and fighting mutants) seemed to be the only time he really felt his life had a point, and 3) He felt like he had something to prove because of his dad.

One of the characters was a woman with (I think) a blue crystal who seemed to be in love with the leader guy of the group. Her sister had evidently just shown up/been rescued and was given a crystal at the end of the show (she wasn't one of the family rescued in the main story, I assumed she was rescued at the beginning and brought in to have an excuse for plot exposition). She had been told that family members usually have the same color and had, apparently, been hitting on the guy her sister has a crush on (also a blue). But, when she gets her crystal, it turns green. She immediately starts chasing after another guy in an attempt at a humorous ending.

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Post Re: Another one from a reader
Hey, I know this one, because it was one of Kevin "Batman" Conroy's last roles before he went purely voice-actor. It's a TV movie called Island City.

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