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S1m0ne (also spelled Simone) is a 2002 science fiction drama film written, produced and directed by Andrew Niccol, starring Al Pacino.
When the main star of disillusioned director Viktor Taransky's new movie walks away, Taransky is forced to find a replacement or never work again. Unfortunately for him, nobody wants to work with him any more.
Viktor tries a new computer program on a hard disk he inherited from his acquaintance Hank Aleno (whom Viktor has only met twice: at a conference eight years earlier and just before Aleno dies). Viktor uses the program as a last, desperate attempt to finish the film. The system allows him to use a computer-generated woman to play the movie's central character. Viktor names his synthetic actress "Simone", a name derived from the computer program's title, "Simulation One". Seamlessly incorporated into the movie, Simone gives a fantastic performance. The studio, and soon the world, starts to ask "who is Simone?"—the entire world thinking that she is a real person.
It soon becomes clear that Simone is a star, and Viktor decides not to mention that she is computer-generated. However, his scheme quickly spirals out of control as he has to try and make her have some elements of a real life too in order to maintain his story.
Getting sick of the attention she needs, and thus having to come up with the fake interviews and attend press conferences, he decides to kill her off, hoping that his regained fame would carry through without her. Having failed in his first attempt he tries again, only to get arrested for her murder.
Eventually, and with the help of his family, he decides to keep Simone "alive" and even starts a virtual family with her. Wikipedia
Cast
* Al Pacino - Viktor Taransky
* Catherine Keener - Elaine Christian
* Evan Rachel Wood - Lainey Christian
* Rachel Roberts - Simone
* Winona Ryder - Nicola Anders
* Jay Mohr - Hal Sinclair
* Pruitt Taylor Vince - Max Sayer
* Jason Schwartzman - Milton
* Elias Koteas - Hank Aleno (uncredited)
* Rebecca Romijn - Faith (uncredited) |
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