| Image Upright: | 1.0 |
| Screenplay: | Preston Sturges Jr. Mick Garris |
| Director: | Mick Garris |
| Starring: | Peter Gallagher Mimi Rogers |
| Music: | Nicholas Pike |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
| Producer: | Ted Babcock Mick Garris Stephanie Germain David A. Rosemont Peter Sadowski Robert M. Sertner Randy Sutter David C. Thomas Frank von Zerneck |
| Editor: | Patrick McMahon |
| Cinematography: | Shelly Johnson |
| Runtime: | 180 min |
| Company: | Hallmark Entertainment Stephanie Germain Productions Von Zerneck Sertner Films |
| Network: | ABC |
| Released: | [1] |
Virtual Obsession is a 1998 science fiction television film directed by Mick Garris and starring Peter Gallagher and Mimi Rogers. It is based on the 1993 novel Host by Peter James.
Scientist Joe Messenger has created a supercomputer controlling the city's utilities. Juliet Spring, a computer technician who becomes Joe's assistant, is incurably ill and plans to transfer her consciousness to Joe's supercomputer.[1]
Virtual Obsession was filmed in Provo and Salt Lake City, Utah.[2]
The film was first broadcast on ABC on Thursday, February 26, 1998, from 8-11 p.m.[2] It has been rerun on cable TV under the title Host.[1]