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Existenz Details

1999

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Starring	Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jude Law, Willem Dafoe, Ian Holm
Director	David Cronenberg
Genres	Sci-Fi/Fantasy

Existenz

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 whose latest games system eXistenZ taps so deeply into its users fears and desires that it blurs the boundaries between reality and escapism. When fanatics attempt to assassinate Allegra, she is forced to flee. Her sole ally is Ted Pikul (Law), a novice security guard who is sworn to protect her. Persuading Ted into playing the game, Allegra draws them both into a phantasmagoric world where existence ends and eXistenZ begins.

Starring	Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jude Law, Willem Dafoe, Ian Holm, Christopher Eccleston, Don McKellar, Callum Keith Rennie, Sarah Polley, Kristopher Lemche
Director	David Cronenberg
Studio	MOMENTUM PICTURES
Run time	DVD: 1 hr 33 mins
Certificate
Genres	Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Language	DVD: English
Hearing-impaired	English
Subtitles	DVD: None
Released	Production year: 1999 To Rent: DVD: 25 Mar 2002

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- The problem here is that the video game is one that you can imagine only Cronenberg wanting to play, and underneath the hi-tech trimmings, which look like leftovers from his Naked Lunch, are themes on the relativity of truth that were handled rathe
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- - Halliwell's Film Guide
  - 02 Mar 2006 at 15:38
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  eXistenZ is the twisted fruit of writer/director David Cronenberg. From the opening title sequence the viewer is exposed to layered images of what looks to be ... read more »
  
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  Inception with syfy twist
  
  I have no idea what film the people who gave this a 1 or 2 stars where watching. They must have been wanting a romcom or something.
  
  You watch this ... read more »
  
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  absolute drivel!
  
  oh goodness me!!! poor plot, bad script, terrible acting....we gave up after 30 minutes!! really not worth a minute of your valuable time
  
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  I would rather poke my eyes out than watch this movie again. Absolute stinker and shame on you Jude Law. You were great in Gataca but this performance pretty ... read more »
  
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Willem Dafoe
- 21 Jul 2009
Platoon (1986) Long before Willem Dafoe had made a big name for himself, he joined Oliver Stone’s troops – as Sgt. Elias Grodin – in Platoon. The first instalment in Stone’s classic Vietnam War trilogy (Born on the Fourth of July and Heaven & Earth followed), it won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 1986, and drafted in a string of soon-to-be stars, including Charlie Sheen, Forest Whitaker and Johnny Depp. James Woods was also meant to join the ranks, but he’d Read more
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  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 whose latest games system eXistenZ taps so deeply into its users fears and desires that it blurs ...