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28 July 1995 (USA) moreTagline:
Her driver's license. Her credit cards. Her bank accounts. Her identity. DELETED. morePlot:
Angela Bennett's a software engineer type who works from home and has few friends outside of cyberspace... more | add synopsisAwards:
1 nomination moreNewsDesk:
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Not to be taken internally or seriously... more (128 total)Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Sandra Bullock | ... | Angela Bennett / Ruth Marx | |
| Jeremy Northam | ... | Jack Devlin | |
| Dennis Miller | ... | Dr. Alan Champion | |
| Diane Baker | ... | Mrs. Bennett | |
| Wendy Gazelle | ... | Ruth Marx | |
| Ken Howard | ... | Michael Bergstrom | |
| Ray McKinnon | ... | Dale Hessman | |
| Daniel Schorr | ... | WNN Anchor | |
| L. Scott Caldwell | ... | Public Defender | |
| Robert Gossett | ... | Ben Phillips | |
| Kristina Krofft | ... | Nurse #1 | |
| Juan García | ... | Resort Desk Clerk | |
| Tony Perez | ... | Mexican Doctor | |
| Margo Winkler | ... | Mrs. Raines | |
| Gene Kirkwood | ... | Stan Whiteman |
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Rated PG-13 for violence, some sexuality and brief strong language.Parents Guide:
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114 minCountry:
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1.85 : 1 moreCertification:
Canada:14 (Nova Scotia) | Canada:G (Quebec) | Canada:PG (Manitoba/Ontario) | Iceland:12 | South Korea:15 | Argentina:13 | Australia:M | Finland:K-12 | Germany:12 | Portugal:M/12 | Singapore:PG | Spain:T | Sweden:15 | UK:12 | USA:PG-13Fun Stuff
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The game that Angela (Sandra Bullock) is playing/debugging at the beginning of the movie is the Apple version of Wolfenstein 3D, similar to the console editions of the game released on the Atari Jaguar and 3DO. moreGoofs:
Factual errors: The Macintosh virus Angela found would not be able to infect a mainframe computer. moreQuotes:
Dr. Alan Champion: Will you be handling the outpatient care, nurse?Angela: Well, do you mind?
Dr. Alan Champion: Visions of sponge baths dance in my head.
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In the dim, dead, dark days preceding my ownership of a PC, I was rather intrigued with the movie. Very Hitchcockian in its tone, and kind of a David-beats-Goliath theme that every one can relate to (Apple vs. Microsoft, employee vs. boss, ad infinitum). Seven years hence...I realize that many of the governmental entities supposedly "hacked" were, at the time of this movie, utilizing systems built when leisure suits were still the rage--and IBM was lord and master of the computer domain. Granted, hackers can be considered a real and acknowledged threat, but we should take this movie for what it is...Just some passably good entertainment and not too representative of R/T (Real Time for all you Netsurfing newbies). However, the plot remains fundamentally sound, and not too taxing on the mind.
Sandra Bullock gave a reasonably credible performance as programmer/support tech/consultant Angela Bennett. I realize that sex appeal fuels Hollywood, and it IS possible to have beauty and brains. But the story seems to have some fundamental flaws. What are the odds that NO one would know who you really were...It's impossible to think that we really have become the so-called "ghosts in the machine". As long as we have receipts, hard copies,friends and loved ones, we won't be caught in "The Net."
Some good performances by the smooth but irreverent Dennis Miller, and by the suave but deadly Jeremy Northam make for a movie worth watching when there's nothing better on the boob tube...Or if you're a closet geek like yours truly, you call friends and laugh about all the inaccuracies.