If you were a brilliant young scientist diagnosed with only months to live, what choices would you make? To have faith that you were taken early for a reason and go quietly, or to use cryogenics to hope you could be cured someday in the future, or to download your consciousness into computer memory where you could still continue to interact with the ones you love?
Practical Effects
Gloriously dated hologram effects that aged like milk in a modem.
Acting
Mimi Rogers doing heavy emotional lifting opposite a screensaver.
Production
Every computer lab looks like a Sharper Image exploded.
Director
Mick Garris
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was adapted from a Dean Koontz novel that the author allegedly disowned; the TV movie removed most of his religious themes and added more beige computer labs.
Released the same year as The Truman Show and Dark City, this represents the embarrassing third path of 1998's identity-in-crisis cinema: direct-to-cable mediocrity.
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