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Overview

User Rating:
5.8/10   24,893 votes
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Director:
Writer (WGA):
Rafael Moreu (written by)
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Release Date:
15 September 1995 (USA) more
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Tagline:
their only crime was curiosity more
Plot:
A young boy is arrested by the US Secret Service for writing a computer virus and is banned from using a computer until his 18th birthday... more | add synopsis
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User Reviews:
How to be overjoyed with a 28.8 BPS modem more (202 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Jonny Lee Miller ... Dade Murphy / 'Crash Override' / 'Zero Cool'

Angelina Jolie ... Kate Libby / 'Acid Burn'

Jesse Bradford ... Joey Pardella

Matthew Lillard ... Emmanuel Goldstein / 'Cereal Killer'
Laurence Mason ... Paul Cook / 'Lord Nikon'
Renoly Santiago ... Ramon Sanchez / 'Phantom Phreak'
Fisher Stevens ... Eugene Belford / 'The Plague' / Mr. Babbage

Alberta Watson ... Lauren Murphy
Darren Lee ... Razor

Peter Y. Kim ... Blade
Ethan Browne ... Curtis

Lorraine Bracco ... Margo
Wendell Pierce ... S.S. Agent Richard Gill

Michael Gaston ... S.S. Agent Bob

Marc Anthony ... S.S. Agent Ray
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Additional Details

MPAA:
Rated PG-13 for some sexuality and brief strong language.
Runtime:
107 min
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2.35 : 1 more
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Fun Stuff

Trivia:
The "hacking"-sequences - the scenes where you see the "inside" of a computer - are mostly motion-controlled models, because director Iain Softley thought that actual computer graphics would look too artificial. more
Goofs:
Audio/visual unsynchronized: Margo and The Plague are talking when she warns him to "get the file or else you'll loose all your toys" but her lips do not match the audio. more
Quotes:
Kate Libby: Here's your class.
Dade Murphy: My class. You mean I'm... I'm not in your class?
Kate Libby: No. You're not in my class.
Dade Murphy: Gimme time.
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in Kôkaku kidôtai (1995) more
Soundtrack:
Original Bedroom Rockers more

FAQ

The Carl Cox song "Phoebus Apollo" is on the original Hackers soundtrack. Where is it in the movie?
Is there a "Hackers 2?"
What computers did the cast use in the film?
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21 out of 33 people found the following review useful.
How to be overjoyed with a 28.8 BPS modem, 18 July 2001
10/10
Author: athame from The Netherlands

It doesn't take a very good movie critic to see that the movie doesn't really have a really interesting plot with interesting characters. A group of teenagers doing things they really shouldn't, getting into trouble and saving themselves again. And in the mean time a sub-plot which involves a girl and a guy that hate each other in the beginning and fall in love with each other throughout the movie. Nonetheless, i still rated this movie very high. Why? because in my opinion it's still a great cult classic. It gives a very good image about how people thought about computers a few years ago when not everybody had one yet. The handlenames are mysterious ("acid burn" "the plaque") but would be ridiculous in this age. People are overjoyed when they get to see a 28.8 BPS modem (who needs T3 anyway? ;) PLUS they pretend as if you can see a program running like it's some sort of great graphic animation. Angelina Jolie and Jonny lee Miller (from trainspotting) are really great in this movie although you can see they're still pretty young and unexperienced. 9/10

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