The Thirteenth Floor

Computer scientist Hannon Fuller has discovered something extremely important. He’s about to tell the discovery to his colleague..

• Director:Josef Rusnak
• Genre:Mystery / Romance / Sci-Fi / Thriller
• Runtime:101 minutes

Cast

Craig Bierko : Douglas Hall / John Ferguson / David
Armin Mueller-Stahl : Hannon Fuller / Grierson
Gretchen Mol : Jane Fuller / Natasha Molinaro
Vincent D’Onofrio : Jason Whitney / Jerry Ashton
Dennis Haysbert : Detective Larry McBain

In late 1990s Los Angeles, Hannon Fuller (Armin Mueller-Stahl) owns a multi-billion-dollar computer enterprise, and is the inventor of a newly-completed virtual reality (VR) simulation of 1937 Los Angeles. When Fuller is murdered, just as he begins premature testing of the VR system, his friend and protégé, Douglas Hall (Craig Bierko), becomes the primary suspect, and begins to doubt his own innocence.

Between questionings by LAPD Detective Larry McBain (Dennis Haysbert), Hall meets Jane Fuller (Gretchen Mol), who is the estranged daughter of the dead Hannon Fuller. Hall romances Jane, who is busy with the shut-down of the new VR system. When a local bartender (witness to a murder-night meeting between Hall and Fuller), is found murdered, Hall is imprisoned, but soon released, after Jane gives him an alibi.

Seeking answers, Hall attempts to track and find a message Fuller left in the simulation. In the VR system, Hall learns that bartender Jerry Ashton (Vincent D’Onofrio) has stumbled upon the truth about his artificial nature — he read the message Fuller addressed to Hall. Frightened and angry, Ashton tries to kill Hall, who barely survives to escape the virtual reality.

Now unable to find Jane, Hall discovers her double, Natasha Molinaro, working as a grocery store clerk — but Molinaro does not recognize Hall. This leads Hall to perform an experiment outside the VR system, something that Fuller’s letter instructed him to try: drive to a place where he never would have considered going otherwise. When he arrives, he sees that the area, and everything within it, does not exist, and is, instead, replaced with wire frame models. Finally understanding the meaning of inventor Fuller’s message, Hall grasps the truth — that 1990s Los Angeles, his world, is a simulation. Read more

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