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The Thirteenth Floor is a Allemand film of genre Science fiction directed by Josef Rusnak released in USA on 16 april 1999 with Craig Bierko
The Thirteenth Floor (1999)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 16 april 1999
Length 1h37
Directed by Josef Rusnak
OriginGerman
Themes Films based on science fiction novels, Films set in the future, Serial killer films, Dystopian films
Rating70%
The Thirteenth Floor is a 1999 science fiction crime thriller film directed by Josef Rusnak and loosely based upon Simulacron-3 (1964), a novel by Daniel F. Galouye. The film stars Craig Bierko, Gretchen Mol, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Vincent D'Onofrio, and Dennis Haysbert. In 2000, The Thirteenth Floor was nominated for the Saturn Award for Best Science Fiction Film, but lost to The Matrix.
Despite receiving generally negative reviews upon its release, the film is now considered a cult classic.
Synopsis
In late 1990s Los Angeles, Hannon Fuller (Armin Mueller-Stahl) owns a multibillion-dollar computer enterprise and is the inventor of a newly completed virtual reality (VR) simulation of 1937 Los Angeles, filled with simulated humans unaware they are computer programs. When Fuller is murdered just as he begins premature testing of the VR system, his friend and protégé, Douglas Hall (Craig Bierko), who is also the heir to the company, becomes the primary suspect. The evidence against him is so strong that Hall begins to doubt his own innocence.Actors
Craig Bierko
(Douglas Hall)
Gretchen Mol
(Jane Fuller)
Vincent D'Onofrio
(Whitney)
Dennis Haysbert
(Det. Larry McBain)
Armin Mueller-Stahl
(Hannon Fuller)
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