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Ready Player One (2018)

Ready Player One
Ready Player One
PG-13
Action
Adventure
Sci-Fi

Release Date
March 28, 2018
Director
Steven Spielberg
Runtime
140
Main Genre
Action
Studio
Warner Bros. Pictures/De Line Pictures
Tagline
A better reality awaits.

Summary

In the near future, outcast teenager Wade Watts escapes from his bleak surroundings by logging in to the OASIS, a globally networked virtual utopia where users can lead idyllic alternate lives. When the eccentric billionaire who created the OASIS dies, he offers up his vast fortune as the prize in an elaborate treasure hunt. Along with gamersfrom around the world, Wade joins the adventure, and quickly finds himself pitted against powerful corporate foes and other ruthless competitors who will do anything, in the oasis or the real world, to reach the treasure first.

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