Characters & Themes
The Outsider (1997) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1997 · 91 mins · English
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- Directed by
- David Bishop
- Starring
- Lindsey Ginter, Randy Kovitz, Jodie Fisher, Bob Koherr, Michael Edwards, Gail Harris
Set in a high‑tech amusement park where visitors role‑play as mobsters with lifelike androids, the film explores lust, greed and violence as participants act out their darkest sexual and brutal impulses on the machines. When a rogue unit dubbed the Outsider spontaneously emerges, it turns its lethal focus on the very programmer who helped design the park’s software.
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