Movie connections for
The Thirteenth Floor (1999) More at IMDbPro »

Version of

Welt am Draht (1973) (TV)
 -  Both movies are based on the same novel "Counterfeit World" by Daniel F. Galouye

References

You Can't Take It with You (1938)
The Lady Vanishes (1938)
Laura (1944)
Blade Runner (1982)
"Star Trek: The Next Generation" (1987)
"America's Most Wanted" (1988)
"Quantum Leap" (1989)
Dark City (1998)
The Truman Show (1998)
 -  Douglas and Jery reaches the edge of the constructed reality also as Truman

Referenced in

Loser (2000)
Vanilla Sky (2001)
The Benchwarmers (2006)
 -  on shelf in video store
"Robot Chicken: They Took My Thumbs (#4.2)" (2008)
 -  A character mentions this movie

Features

You Can't Take It with You (1938)
 -  Shortly visible (a maid opens a door and looks very surprised) in the scene where Douglas meets Jason as he's watching the screens.
Gilda (1946)
 -  Shortly visible (Rita Hayworth dancing in the casino) on a TV screen in the empty lounge when the answering machines announces 3 new messages, just after Hannon Fuller's death.

Featured in

Los Angeles Plays Itself (2003)
 -  Excerpts appear in the film.

Spoofed in

La gran revelación (2007)
 -  The ending, and other parallelisms between the two plots and their developments: a virtual reality for fun use, real persons interchanging personality with virtual ones, Joaquín Reyes with a laser light behind him...

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