
Virtual Obsession
1998-02-01 · 135 min · ★ 3.9
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?
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- Directors
- Mick Garris
- Production companies
- Hallmark Entertainment, Stephanie Germain Productions, Von Zerneck Sertner Films
- Countries
- United States of America
- Status
- Released
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Peter GallagherDr. Joe Messenger
Mimi RogersKaren Messenger
Jake LloydJack
Andy ComeauTom Inman
Robert VaughnAdam Spring
Bridgette WilsonJuliet Spring
Lee Garlington
Michael O'Neill
Cynthia GarrisJudge Dairymple
Dan Martin
Frank GerrishCoroner
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