Menno's Mind | |
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Directed by | Jon Kroll |
Written by | Mark Valenti |
Produced by | Larry Estes |
Starring | Billy Campbell Stephanie Romanov Corbin Bernsen Michael Dorn Bruce Campbell |
Cinematography | Gary Tieche |
Edited by | Stephen R. Myers |
Music by | Christopher Franke |
Distributed by | Showtime Networks |
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Running time | 95 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
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Campbell plays the titular Menno, a computer programmer at a virtual reality resort that allows visitors to escape into simulations of their fantasies. The technology is being employed for election fraud by the chief of security (Corbin Bensen). The resistance leader recruits Menno to fight the corruption. [1]
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