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| Genre: | SciFi |
| Year: | 1998 |
| Rating: | R |
| Country: | USA |
| Cast: | Rufus Sewell, William Hurt, Kiefer Sutherland, Jennifer Connolley, Richard O'Brien, Ian Richardson |
| Credits: | New Line Cinema
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| Home Page: | http://www.darkcity.com/ |
Synopsis
Dark City is a tale of
mythic proportions about one man's battle
to reclaim his destiny.
John Murdoch (Sewell) awakens alone in a
strange hotel to find that he is wanted for a
series of brutal murders. The problem is that
he can't remember whether he committed
the murders or not. In fact, most of his
memories have completely vanished, and
for one brief moment, he is convinced that
he has gone stark raving mad.
Pursued by Detective Bumstead (Hurt),
Murdoch seeks to unravel the twisted riddle
of his identity. As he edges closer to solving
the mystery, he stumbles upon a fiendish
underworld controlled by a group of
ominous beings collectively known as The
Strangers. These shadow-like figures
possess the ability to stop time and alter
people's perceptions -- a process known as
Tuning. Through an evolutionary anomaly,
Murdoch is also imbued with this power
and thus, he alone is able to resist The
Stangers' control over his mind.
And for that, he must be destroyed.
With the help of the inscrutable Doctor
Schreber (Sutherland), Murdoch is able to
stay a step ahead of his adversaries while he
slowly pieces together the labyrinthine
puzzle of his past -- his bittersweet
childhood, his love for his estranged wife
Emma (Connelly) and the key to a hideous
series of murders which he is suspected of
committing.
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