The Matrix

Directors: Lilly Wachowski, Lana Wachowski | USA, 1999, 136 min

Thomas Anderson (Keanu Reeves) is an ordinary young man living in the rush of a modern metropolis - with good friends, family, and a job at the computer company Meta Cortech. But one night he begins to be haunted by a terrifying suspicion: that he was placed into a computer as data against his will, and everything he thought was his life is merely a stream of information flowing around a few circuit boards. He starts to doubt his own reality.

Was he really put into a machine? Who is responsible? Are the people around him real, or just projections maintaining the illusion of a normal world? And what will happen when his captors discover that he knows the truth?