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What Happened to Dark City (1998)?
Posted 3 months ago
Alex Proyas' Dark City predates The Matrix, but in some ways is just as good.
Dark City
- Theatrical - Wide 1998-02-27
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John Murdoch awakens alone in a strange hotel to find that he has lost his memory and is wanted for a series of brutal and bizarre murders. While trying to piece together his past, he stumbles upon a fiendish underworld controlled... See more by a group of beings known as The Strangers who possess the ability to put people to sleep and alter the city and its inhabitants. Now Murdoch must find a way to stop them before they take control of his mind and destroy him.
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Dark City
Posted 28 years ago
Review Date: Director: Alex Proyas Writer: Alex Proyas, Lem Dobbs, David S. Goyer Producers: Alex Proyas, Andrew Mason Actors: Rufus Sewell William Hurt Jennifer Connelly Plot: Some eerie “people” named The Strangers living under a “dark city” attempt to identify...
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The Test of Time: Dark City (1998)
Posted 13 years ago
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Dark City
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