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6.8A game designer on the run from assassins must play her latest virtual reality creation with a marketing trainee to determine if the game has been damaged.
Released: 1999-04-1497 minDir: David CronenbergAction, Thriller, Science FictionBudget: $15.0MBox office: $2.9M
Cast
- Jennifer Jason Leigh as Allegra Geller
- Jude Law as Ted Pikul
- Ian Holm as Kiri Vinokur
- Willem Dafoe as Gas
- Don McKellar as Yevgeny Nourish
- Callum Keith Rennie as Hugo Carlaw
Themes
- hacker
- video game
- virtual reality
- pop star
- bodyguard
- dystopia
- virtual fight
- near future
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Ratings
IMDb
6.8/10
111,094 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
77%
Metacritic
70/100
- Year
- 1999
- Runtime
- 97 min
- Genres
- Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
- Rated
- R
- Awards
- 3 wins & 14 nominations total
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Key facts
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- eXistenZ
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- Theatrical release poster
- Film.director
- David Cronenberg
- Film.writer
- David Cronenberg
- Film.music
- Howard Shore
- Film.cinematography
- Peter Suschitzky
- Film.editing
- Ronald Sanders
- Film.runtime
- 97 minutes
- Film.language
- English
- Film.gross
- $5.5 million (Canada/UK/US)
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Wikidata facts
- Duration
- 97
- FilmAffinity ID
- 792969
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- publication date
- 1999-11-18
- title
- Existenz
- review score
- 6.8/10
- capital cost
- 15000000
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1999 British films1999 Canadian films1999 English-language films1999 films1999 horror films1999 science fiction films1999 science fiction horror filmsAlliance Atlantis filmsBiopunk filmsBritish body horror filmsBritish science fiction horror filmsCanadian body horror filmsCanadian science fiction horror filmsDimension Films filmsEnglish-language Canadian filmsEnglish-language science fiction horror filmsFilms about video gamesFilms about virtual realityFilms directed by David CronenbergFilms scored by Howard ShoreFilms set in the futureFilms shot in TorontoFilms that won the Outstanding Artistic Contribution Silver BearMetafictional works