Dark City (1998 film)

Dark City is a 1998 neo-noir science fiction film John Murdoch awakens in a hotel bathtub with amnesia. He receives a phone call from Dr.

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Dark City (1998 film)

“Dark City is a 1998 neo-noir science fiction film John Murdoch awakens in a hotel bathtub with amnesia. He receives a phone call from Dr. ”

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Dark City is a 1998 neo-noir science fiction film John Murdoch awakens in a hotel bathtub with amnesia. He receives a phone call from Dr. Daniel Schreber, who urges him to flee the hotel to evade a group of men who are after him. In the room, Murdoch discovers the corpse of a ritualistically murdered woman and a bloody knife. He flees the scene, just as a group of pale men in trenchcoats ("the Strangers") arrive. Police Inspector Frank Bumstead, who is investigating murdered prostitutes, identifies Murdoch as a suspect. Following clues, Murdoch learns his name and finds out he has a wife named Emma. When the Strangers corner him, Murdoch instinctively alters reality (an ability the Strangers share and refer to as tuning) to create an escape path for himself. Murdoch wanders the streets of the city where it is perpetually nighttime but no one seems to notice. When the clock strikes twelve, Murdoch witnesses everyone else fall asleep and the Strangers use tuning to physically rearran Rufus Sewell as John Murdoch William Hurt as Inspector Frank Bumstead Kiefer Sutherland as Dr. Daniel P. Schreber Jennifer Connelly as Emma Murdoch / Anna Richard O'Brien as Mr. Hand Ian Richardson as Mr. Book Bruce Spence as Mr. Wall Colin Friels as Detective Eddie Walenski John Bluthal as Karl Harris Mitchell Butel as Officer Husselbeck Melissa George as May Frank Gallacher as Chief Inspector Stromboli Ritchie Singer as Hotel Manager / Vendor Justin Monjo as Taxi Driver Nicholas Bell as Mr. Rain Satya Gumbert as Mr. Sleep (Noah Gumbert as Mr. Sleep Filming Double) Frederick Miragliotta as Mr. Quick Jeanette Cronin as a Stranger David Wenham as Schreber's Assistant Alan Cinis as Automat Cop Bill Highfield as Automat Cop Darren Gilshenan as Fingerprint Cop Terry Bader as Mr. Jeremy Goodwin Rosemary Traynor as Mrs. Sylvia Goodwin Maureen O'Shaughnessy as Kate Walenski

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Rufus Sewell as John Murdoch William Hurt as Inspector Frank Bumstead Kiefer Sutherland as Dr. Daniel P. Schreber Jennifer Connelly as Emma Murdoch / Anna Richard O'Brien as Mr. Hand Ian Richardson as Mr. Book Bruce Spence as Mr. Wall Colin Friels as Detective Eddie Walenski John Bluthal as Karl Harris Mitchell Butel as Officer Husselbeck Melissa George as May Frank Gallacher as Chief Inspector Stromboli Ritchie Singer as Hotel Manager / Vendor Justin Monjo as Taxi Driver Nicholas Bell as Mr. Rain Satya Gumbert as Mr. Sleep (Noah Gumbert as Mr. Sleep Filming Double) Frederick Miragliotta as Mr. Quick Jeanette Cronin as a Stranger David Wenham as Schreber's Assistant Alan Cinis as Automat Cop Bill Highfield as Automat Cop Darren Gilshenan as Fingerprint Cop Terry Bader as Mr. Jeremy Goodwin Rosemary Traynor as Mrs. Sylvia Goodwin Maureen O'Shaughnessy as Kate Walenski