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Dan Mazur (writer)
David Tausik (writer)
Release Date:
14 April 2000 (USA) more
Awards:
1 nomination more
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Matrix Underfunded more (16 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Michael Muhney | ... | Dale Hunter |
 | Tasma Walton | ... | Wendy |
 | Todd MacDonald | ||
| Jennifer Congram | ... | Natalie |
 | John Noble | ... | Dad |
 | Mitchell Butel | ... | Miller |
 | Paul Gleeson | ... | Sanford |
| Bob Hornery | ... | Stan |
 | Jerome Ehlers | ||
| Peter Curtin | ||
| Amanda Wenban | ||
| Zoe Naylor | ||
| William Ten Eyck | (as Bill Ten Eyck) | |
| Todd Levi | ||
| Jonathan Atherton |
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86 min
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Iceland:16 | Argentina:13 | Australia:M | Germany:16 | UK:12
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The idyllic existence of Fairview advertising executive Michael Muhney is upset by bad dreams and disturbing visions. He's unknowingly experiencing a reality-check in a bracing post-apocalyptic Matrix riff from Australia (which explains the unfamiliar cast). A faceless corporation called Arora has wallpapered-over the real world with pacifying signals sent direct to the brain: this is a world where you can buy a new car every day at 1950s prices and your unflaggingly cheerful parents talk in reassuring platitudes, a place where Kurt Cobain sings children's songs and Marilyn Monroe makes movies with Leonardo DiCaprio. Mixing paint-box colours with grimy black-and-white, director Michael Pattinson conjures up a delusional universe that repels and attracts in equal measure. This curious picture lifts good ideas from impeccable sources: the too-perfect nostalgic small-town setting of Pleasantville, the sealed perimeters of The Thirteenth Floor, the out-of-wack office of The Truman Show, the on-screen catalogue tags of Fight Club, the paintings of Rene Magritte. Even though it's consistently engaging, like so many Outer Limits-style tales, the more it's explained, the less interesting it becomes. This could be because the dialogue sounds as though it's been lifted wholesale from comic-book speech-bubbles. Even so, the conflicting ideas gnaw: Socrates' assertion that the unexamined life is not worth living is all very well, but would we want to know the truth if the truth is unbearable?