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Megaville is an independent, low budget and direct-to-video 1990 American science fiction film, starring Billy Zane in his first lead role. Megaville is a neo-noir psychological thriller film which utilises elements of science fiction such as cyberpunk and existentialism, and as such, shares similarities to a number of better-known and better-funded productions including Memento, Blade Runner and the ''Matrix'' series. The story of Megaville is surprisingly similar to A Scanner Darkly, a novel by Philip K. Dick (which was adapted into a film of the same name starring Keanu Reeves in 2006) and some have suggested this was an inspiration for the film, although this is unconfirmed. Megaville was an independent production and similarities are likely coincidental. In the future, national boundaries have been broken down and two only giant super-states remain -- effectively, two separate world government -- one is the bleak, oppressive and totalitarian "Hemisphere", and the other is a... full article at wikipedia

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  • 1990
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  • Big city. Big bucks. Big trouble.
  • Welcome to the future.
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  • 95.0min
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Created by tristan Apr 10, 2007
Last edited by crism May 1, 2008

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