EXISTENZ

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• Release Year: 1999
• Genre: Science-Fiction; Suspense/Thriller
• Plot: Set in the near-future, eXistenZ depicts a society in which game designers are worshipped as superstars and players can organically enter inside the games. At the center of the story is Allegra Geller (Jennifer Jason Leigh) whose latest games system eXistenZ taps so deeply into its users' fears and desires that it blurs the boundaries between reality and escapism. ; ; Forced to flee after a failed assassination attempt, Allegra teams with a novice security guard, Ted Pikul (Jude Law). Persuading Ted into playing the game, Allegra draws them both into a phantasmagoric world where existence ends and eXistenZ begins.
• Cast: Jennifer Jason Leigh; Jude Law; Ian Holm; Willem Dafoe; Don McKellar; Callum Keith Rennie; Christopher Eccleston; Sarah Polley; Robert A. Silverman; Oscar Hsu; Kris Lemche; Vik Sahay; Kirsten Johnson; James Kirchner; Balázs Koós; Stephanie Belding; Gerry Quigley; David Cronenberg; Andras Hamori; Robert Lantos; Bradley Adams; Damon Bryant; Michael MacDonald; Peter Suschitzky; Ronald Sanders; Howard Shore; Tamara Deverell
• Director: David Cronenberg
• Runtime: 1:38
• Company: Dimension Films, Alliance Atlantis Communications, Canadian Television Fund, Natural Nylon Entertainment, Serendipity Point Films, The Harold Greenberg Fund, The Movie Network (TMN), Téléfilm Canada, Union Générale Cinématographique (UGC), Alliance Atlantis (Alliance Atlantis Releasing Limited)
• Media Format: Movie