Virtuosity
Virtuosity is a 1995 American science fiction action film directed by Brett Leonard and starring Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe. Howard W. Koch Jr. served as an executive producer for the film. The film was released in the United States on August 4, 1995. Virtuosity had an estimated budget of $30 million and grossed $37 million worldwide.
Plot
In Los Angeles, Parker Barnes is a former police officer imprisoned for killing political terrorist Matthew Grimes, who killed Parker's wife and daughter. Barnes killed Grimes but also accidentally shot two news reporters in the process and was sentenced to 17 years to life. In the year 1999, Barnes and John Donovan are testing a virtual reality system designed for training police officers. The two are tracking down a serial killer named SID 6.7 at a Japanese sushi restaurant in virtual reality. SID (short for Sadistic, Intelligent, Dangerous, a VR amalgam of the most violent serial killers throughout history) causes Donovan to go into shock, killing him. The director overseeing the project orders the programmer in charge of creating SID, Dr. Darrel Lindenmeyer, to shut down the project with Commissioner Elizabeth Deane and her associate, William Wallace, as his witnesses.
More details
author | Eric Bernt |
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contentLocation | California Los Angeles |
director | Brett Leonard |
editor | Conrad Buff IV |
events | telepresence virtual reality |
genre | action science fiction |
keywords | booby trap build c line capture create disabled grand olympic auditorium hide horrify kill killing spree lapd learn los angeles olympic auditorium los angeles police department news reporter police officer real world security guard set up sexually-compliant virtual reality model sushi sushi restaurant system design television studio test train ufc ultimate fighting championship |
musicBy | Christopher Young |
producer | Gary Lucchesi Gimel Everett |
productionCompany | Gary Lucchesi Productions |
publisher | Paramount Pictures |
theme | chase science fiction action serial killer |