What was the name of that matrix-like movie with multiple levels of virtual reality?

I saw this movie a long time ago on TV. not sure if it was before or after the Matrix actually came out. it was probably a made for TV movie, but I can't be sure of that. It was about a guy in suburbia who became away that reality was a computer fantasy, and he somehow escaped. He found a bunch of "rebels" in a wasteland environment that were "fighting the system". But that was also a virtual reality. He escape from that one and found a bunch of elite upper management types that believed THEY were running the virtual realities. But of course that was also a virtual reality. There was a tier of reality built to house all different personalities, and he broke through all of them and eventually finds just 1 guy in a warehouse running the whole show and dieing of old age. So the main character is going to take over his job. At this point all the curtains are pulled back, and it's not like the matrix where everyone is plugged in...reality is real, but your television, your chair, your computer..they're all construction or just empty boxes with bar-codes that tell your brain you're watching TV..when you're really just sitting on a cheap chair staring at a cardboard box.

Does that sound familiar to anyone? What was the name of that movie???