eXistenZ

eXistenZ (1999)

Timing: 1:37 (97 min)

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Actors and characters

Release date

1999-04-14

Country

Canada, United Kingdom, United States, France

Production

Dimension Films, Serendipity Point Films, Téléfilm Canada, The Movie Network, Alliance Atlantis, Harold Greenberg Fund, UGC, Natural Nylon Entertainment, Existence Productions, Canada Television and Cable Production Fund, Screenventures XXIV Productions

Genre

Action, Thriller, Science Fiction

Budget

$15 000 000

Revenue

$2 856 712

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Director

David Cronenberg

Actors

Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jude Law, Ian Holm, Willem Dafoe, Don McKellar, Callum Keith Rennie, Christopher Eccleston, Sarah Polley, Robert A. Silverman, Kris Lemche
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Scenario

Producer

David Cronenberg, András Hámori, Robert Lantos

Operator

Peter Suschitzky

Composer

Howard Shore

Artist

Audition

Deirdre Bowen

Editing

Ronald Sanders
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• In the scene where the game “eXistenZ” is presented, the inscription on Dr. Noel Dietrich's ID card is written in ancient Babylonian.
• Some scenes in the film contain references to Cronenberg's older film *Videodrome* and Philip K. Dick's psychedelic novel *Stigmatas of Palmer Eldritch*.
• In the scene where Kiri fiddles with Allegra's "port," he mutters in Hungarian "thank you, thank you, thank you."
• The letter combination "isten," hidden in the film's title between the capital "X" and "Z," means "god" in Hungarian.
• Jennifer Jason Leigh sacrificed a role in Kubrick's *Eyes Wide Shut* for *eXistenZ*.
• In the scene where the game “eXistenZ” is presented, the inscription on Dr. Noel Dyckman’s ID card is written in ancient Babylonian.
• Some scenes in the film contain references to Cronenberg’s earlier film “Videodrome” and Philip K. Dick’s psychedelic novel “The Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch.”
• In the scene where Kiri fiddles with Allegra’s “port,” he mutters “thank you, thank you, thank you” in Hungarian.
• The letter combination “isten,” hidden in the film’s title between the capital “X” and “Z,” means “god” in Hungarian.
• For “eXistenZ,” Jennifer Jason Leigh sacrificed a role in Kubrick’s “Eyes Wide Shut.”