Product Details

• Actors: Scott Bakatman, John Perry Barlow, Robert Ettinger, Robert Gurland, Michio Kaku
• Directors: Iara Lee
• Producers: George Gund
• Format: Color, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Fox Lorber
• VHS Release Date: March 24, 1998
• Run Time: 85 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: 1572521031
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #317,066 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

An around-the-world exploration of such cutting edge technologies as virtual reality, cyber sex, nootropics and plastic beauty. Features a hot techno soundtrack and commentaries from a host of leading technology pioneers.

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars a movie that will keep you thinking, July 8, 2001

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Karen Robinson (california) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Synthetic Pleasures [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This movie will not only intrigue, fascinate, educate and bewilder, it will also change your life (or at least how you look at it). It explores how all things synthetic from plastic surgery and indoor beaches to cryogenics are slowly becoming more natural to us. Yes, we are living in a superhyped techno-world, but the technological advances coming out everyday are changing more than just the speed of our internet connection. Whether these changes are good or bad, the film does not judge. This movie left me feeling confused, excited, scared, shocked and yet hopeful about what lies ahead for us. SYNTHETIC PLEASURES is a brilliant film but it doesn't give any answers. Instead, it forces us to think on our own. A great companion to this movie is Mark C Taylor's book, HIDING.