Release Date
August 23, 2002
Director
Andrew Niccol
Writer
Andrew Niccol
Cast
Jeffrey Pierce, Robert Musgrave, Sean Cullen, Tony Crane, Stanley Anderson, Susan Chuang, Evan Rachel Wood, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Jason Schwartzman, Rebecca Romijn-Stamos, Winona Ryder, Jay Mohr, Catherine Keener, Chris Coppola, Rachel Roberts, Al Pacino
Studio
Running Time
117 minutes
MPA Rating
Rated PG-13 for some sensuality
When the lead actress drops out of his film, a producer decides to replace with her with a completely digital actress. He never tells the public, but as her popularity continues to rise, he knows the truth will have to come out at some point. ... Full synopsis »
MOVIE REVIEW
With the advent of Jar-Jar Binks and Gollum, Hollywood is coming ever so close to believable CGI characters, actors that need only a voice to come alive. Jar-Jar was a failure, and Gollum's tale has yet to be told, so a better example may be last year's Final Fantasy, a movie that at some moments had "people" on screen that were so life-like that, had they been placed next to someone like, say, Jay Mohr, you'd swear there were two real human beings standing there. In Simone, the latest picture from Andrew Niccol, the writer of The Truman Show, Al Pacino stars as a desperate director who blends the line between reality and virtual reality. What Niccol forgets, however, is that before you can make a movie based on a story of this nature, you have to make an entertaining script for the actors to read, and for the audience to listen to. Full movie review »
