The Colony (1995 film)

The Colony is a 1995 American made-for-television thriller drama film starring John Ritter, Mary Page Keller, and Hal Linden.

[1] Following a carjacking, a man and his family move into an Orwellian-like gated community where the billionaire owner controls the residents' lives.

Tony Scott of Variety wrote in his review: "June Lockhart, who knows how to handle the role, cunningly dominates the private school system.

There's no privacy, and there's a secret attempt by a patrol to search the Ritter family's house for a vital missing computer disk that the former tenants squirreled away before they were sent over a cliff by Teague.

In 2016, USA Network produced a series of the same name that features a similar premise, but with science fiction elements.