Hadda Brooks

コンピュータ・ソフトの開発者ホールは、ヴァーチャル・リアリティの技術を使ってコンピュータ内に1937年のロサンゼルスを再現しようとしていた。だが上司が何者かに殺される事件が起こり、ホールが容疑者となってしまった。アリバイが無いどころか、犯行時間の記憶自体失っているホールは、突然の事態にパニックとなる。やがて彼は、研究の過程で1937年の仮想世界と現実世界を行き来していたことを知る。その鍵を握るのは“13階”……。制作は「インデペンデンス・デイ」のローランド・エメリッヒ。

Told in flashback form, the film traces the rise and fall of a tough, ambitious Hollywood producer, Jonathan Shields, as seen through the eyes of various acquaintances, including a writer, James Lee Bartlow; a star, Georgia Lorrison; and a director, Fred Amiel. He is a hard-driving, ambitious man who ruthlessly uses everyone on the way to becoming one of Hollywood's top movie makers.

An aspiring actress begins to suspect that her temperamental and mentally impaired boyfriend is a murderer.

Set in an apartment building whose occupants include Arthur Earthleigh, a meek and mild type married to the beautiful-but-domineering Mae; a Bohemian artist, David Galleo and his always-there model, Deborah Tyler; and Olive Jensen, a Greenwich Village type who is always slightly-but-continuously inebriated, and whose motto is "love and let love." She calls on George while his wife is out, and when she passes out during his attempts to get her out before his wife returns, he thinks she is dead and deposits her on Galleo's terrace. Galleo takes advantage of the situation by using it in a blackmail scheme against Arthur, which is shaky, at best, as Olive refuses to stay dead.