The Matrix
Summary: When a beautiful stranger leads computer hacker Neo to a forbidding underworld, he discovers the shocking truth--the life he knows is the elaborate deception of an evil cyber-intelligence.
Release Date: March 31, 1999
Runtime: 2 h 16 min
MPAA: R
Movie budget: $ 63,000,000
Domestic: $ 172,076,928
International: $ 295,145,800
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