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1) EDTV
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
Ed Perkurny is just a regular guy who feels he has nothing to lose by agreeing to be a star of a new reality-based TV show. Almost overnight, the program becomes a hit, and suddenly this goofy but engaging video clerk is a national celebrity!
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
When William Shatner and his wacky entourage roll into Riverside, Iowa to supposedly film a big-budget sci-fi flick, a prank of mass proportions unravels as the locals fall victim to their bizarre demands and hilarious schemes.
3) Waking life
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
Language
English
Description
Join Wiley Wiggins as he searches for answers to the question of whether we are sleepwalking through our waking state or wake-walking through our dreams.
4) Belle
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Suzu is a shy high school student living in a rural village. For years, she has only been a shadow of herself. But when she enters "U," a massive virtual world, she escapes into her online persona as Belle, a globally-beloved singer.
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
Truman's life is a fake. He lives in a big studio with hidden cameras everywhere. His friends and co-workers are actors who play their roles in the most popular television series in the world: The Truman show. He thinks he is an ordinary man and has no idea about how he is being exploited. What will he do when he finds out?
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
Now confined to a mental institution, Laurie quickly falls victim to her brother, Michael, whom she thought she had beheaded. Cut to Haddonfield, IL, where a sextet of college students is assembling for the production of an online reality show in which they'll spend the night locked up in the killer's childhood home being filmed by dozens of cameras and broadcast over the Internet. As they hunt for clues about Michael's tortured childhood, he arrives...
8) Barbie
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
To live in Barbie Land is to be a perfect being in a perfect place. Unless you have a full-on existential crisis. Or you're a Ken.
10) Emulation
Publisher
Maverick Entertainment Group, Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
What if you could live life through a movie? the powerful emulation corporation provides this unique service for Noah Wilson. After being marked for death and the target of a nation wide manhunt, Noah's life descends into a race for survival. Somewhere in between reality and fiction lies the truth.
12) Ready player one
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
It's 2045, with the world on the brink of chaos and collapse, but the people have found salvation in the OASIS, an expansive virtual reality universe created by the brilliant and eccentric James Halliday. When Halliday dies, he leaves his immense fortune to the first person to find a digital Easter egg he has hidden somewhere in the OASIS, sparking a contest that grips the entire world. When an unlikely young hero named Wade Watts decides to join...
15) The nines
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
The lives of an actor, a television game show personality, and a videogame designer are intertwined, and the lines between fantasy and reality become blurred. Three linked stories that exist in distinct but overlapping parallel universes, each challenging the other's claim to reality.
Publisher
A&E Television Networks, LLC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
The hunt continues with brothers Rick and Marty's return to Oak Island as they look for more clues to this 200-year old mystery. Join the world's longest-running hunt for riches and discover the evidence that points to lost treasure in the historic and mysterious Money Pit.
17) Free guy
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A bank teller, who discovers he is actually a background player in an open-world video game, decides to become the hero of his own story, one he rewrites himself. Now in a world where there are no limits, he is determined to be the guy who saves his world his way, before it is too late.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Deep in the Alaskan wilderness is a family who, for the last thirty years, has lived in the wild. For the Browns, residing in a one-room cabin and sharing their front yard with some of the world's most dangerous animals is just part of life. Includes all fourteen episodes from one of Discovery's highest-rated shows.
19) My one & only
Publisher
Hallmark Channel, Cinedigm
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
As contestants on 'The One,' Stephanie and Oliver try to determine if they're fated to be together. Meanwhile, sparks fly between Stephanie and Alex, the handsome ranch owner who acts as their guide.
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