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Police State (2017 film)

2015 film by Kevin Arbouet

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 26, 2026
Entity authorityQ18389193 ↗
Source-derived summary

Police State is a 2017 American sci-fi and adventure film written and directed by Kevin Arbouet. The film stars Sean Young, Seth Gilliam, Kristina Klebe, and Chris Riggi.

Cast

Sean Young

Neal Bledsoe as John

Seth Gilliam as Officer Grady

Chris Riggi as Carter Brooks

Kristina Klebe as Katie

Kelly AuCoin as Mayor

Production

Filming took place primarily in Nassau County, New York.

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“Police State (2017 film)” enters the record as 2015 film by Kevin Arbouet. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Police, State and film can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 26, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q18389193. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2017.

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This entry incorporates text from “Police State (2017 film)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.