Role Call

Jude Law

PREMISE Marketing trainee Law goes down the rabbit hole when virtual-reality game designer Jennifer Jason Leigh (above) literally plugs him into her dangerous world, marked by shifting rules, assassination threats, and two-headed amphibians. (And you thought returning to Cold Mountain was a rough trip...)

FUN FACT To get Law and Leigh into the proper existential mind-set, writer-director David Cronenberg (''The Fly'') assigned them to read philosophers Sartre, Kierkegaard, and Nietzsche.

WHY IT'S GREAT Even deeply entrenched in the gruesome, slime-spattered world of virtual reality, Law remains, as always, charismatic and easy on the eyes.