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Nicholas Van Orton is a very wealthy San Francisco banker, but he is an absolute loner, even spending his birthday alone. In the year of his 48th birthday (the age his father committed suicide) his brother Conrad, who has gone long ago and surrendered to addictions of all kinds, suddenly returns and gives Nicholas a card giving him entry to unusual entertainment provided by something called Consumer Recreation Services (CRS). Giving in to curiosity, Nicholas visits CRS and all kinds of weird and bad things start to happen to him.
Michael Douglas plays Nicholas Van Orton, a Scrooge-like San Francisco investment banker following in his fathers Scrooge-like footsteps. On Nicholass 48th birthday (the age at which his father committed suicide), his younger, free-spirited brother Conrad (Sean Penn) blows into town and gives Nicholas a special gift for "the man who has everything" -- a ticket to CRS (Consumer Recreation Services), a company that constructs games custom-fit for each participant to provide, as CRS salesman Jim Feingold (James Rebhorn) cryptically puts it, "whatever is lacking." Nicholass secure life begins a downhill slide as CRS masterminds a series of elaborate pranks, harmless at first, that quickly become malicious and life-threatening. Stripped of financial resources and convinced that he can trust no one, Nicholas begins to wonder if CRS is a front for a more covert operation, and if the game is in fact an attempt to steal his fortune and leave him for dead. Determined to fight back alone, Nicholas infiltrates CRS in order to "pull back the curtain and meet the wizard."
Michael Douglas
Nicholas Van Orton
Deborah Kara Unger
Christine
Sean Penn
Conrad
James Rebhorn
Jim Feingold
Peter Donat
Samuel Sutherland
Carroll Baker
Ilsa
Anna Katarina
Elizabeth
Armin Mueller-Stahl
Anson Baer
Charles Martinet
Nicholas' Father
Scott Hunter McGuire
Young Nicholas
Florentine Mocanu
Nicholas' Mother
Elizabeth Dennehy
Maria
Caroline Barclay
Maggie
Daniel Schorr
Daniel Schorr
John Aprea
Power Executive
Harrison Young
Obsequious Executive
Kimberly Russell
Cynthia, CRS Receptionist
Joe Frank
CRS Data Collating Technician
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