The Purge is a 2013 English-language Horror Thriller film written and directed by James Demonaco and produced by Jason Blum, Michael Bay, Andrew Form, Brad Fuller and S Bastien K. Lemercier. In an America wracked by crime and overcrowded prisons, the government has sanctioned an annual 12-hour period in which any and all criminal activity-including murder-becomes legal. The police can't be called. Hospitals suspend help. It's one night when the citizenry regulates itself without thought of punishment. On this night plagued by violence and an epidemic of crime, one family wrestles with the decision of who they will become when a stranger comes knocking. When an intruder breaks into James Sandin's (Ethan Hawke) gated community during the yearly lockdown, he begins a sequence of events that threatens to tear a family apart. Now, it is up to James, his wife, Mary (Lena Headey), and their kids to make it through the night without turning into the monsters from whom they hide. Written by Universal Pictures. The purge stars Ethan Hawke, Lena Headey, Adelaide Kane, Max Burkholder, Edwin Hodge, Rhys Wakefield and Mickey Facchinello. The music was composed by Nathan Whitehead. Cinematography was done by Jacques Jouffret and editing by Peter Gvozdas. The movie has a running time of 85 minutes. It was released on 29th August 2013. The Film was successful at box office. The Purge was made on a budget of $3 million and it was a super hit at box office gross of $89 million. Distribution rights for the film were acquired by Universal Pictures.