Virtual Obsession

Virtual Obsession

1998 · 135 min · ★ 4.1 · Science Fiction, Thriller, TV Movie

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?

Directed by Mick Garris · Written by P.G. Sturges

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