With the help of his new friends Alex Danyliuk turns to a life of crime and identity theft.
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Title: Hacker (2016)
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Alex
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Kira
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Sye
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Zed
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Curtis
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Alex's Mother
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Aidan Besu | ... |
6-year-old Alex
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Rian Michelsen | ... |
13-year-old Alex
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Federal Reserve Chairman
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Randy Bickle
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Robin
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Chris
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Darryl Flatman | ... |
Tommy
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Randy The Car Dealer
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When his family hits financial trouble, Alex Danyliuk turns to a life of crime and identity theft, with the help of Sye, a street-wise hustler who introduces him to the world of black market trading, Kira, a young female hacker, and contacts on the dark web. After finding success in causing financial market chaos, they gain the attention of Z, a mysterious masked figure, who's the head of an organization known as Anonymous, and a number one target by the FBI, Written by Mitch Swan
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Rated R for language throughout including some sexual references, and a bloody image | See all certifications »Parents Guide:
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2 December 2016 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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$2,000,000 (estimated)Company Credits
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The director and producer first spoke about the story in June 2013. By August the film was fully financed, and a year later, the film was fully completed. It shot in Toronto, New York, Hong Kong, Bangkok, Kazakhstan, edited in Los Angeles, and finished in Toronto. See more »Goofs
The Australian actor playing Alex refers to himself early in the movie as an "adult" with an accent on the second syllable, while every Canadian-including Ukrainian and Russian immigrants-would place the accent on the first syllable. In other words, he was using an American accent after having grown up in Canada. See more »Frequently Asked Questions
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The movie tried to portray how a life of a typical hacker would be with the usual suspects: a migrant who is rationally sleeping till a turning point in his family's life pops us which is generally related to finance. The usual suspects suddenly decides to awaken his sleeping cyborg and decides to be utilitarian just to end up in an existential circle. Also, it doesn't really reflect the mind of a hacker but rather a mind of someone who wants to get rich and regret later. Most of the hackers fight for a cause and they wouldn't back up. There are scenes in the movie that depict a hacker as being someone who rushes in his decisions and is not proactive about what would happen and does not assess the current situation on the spot in which the movie failed to give a close-to-reality snap on how a hacker react and assess a risk.