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Hackers is a 1995 American film directed by Iain Softley. The cast includes Jonny Lee Miller, Angelina Jolie, Jesse Bradford, and Matthew Lillard. The movie is written in English and features Simon Boswell as the composer. It was produced by Ralph Winter and distributed by United Artists and Netflix. The narrative is set in New York City, with filming taking place in New York City, New Jersey, Pinewood Studios, and Lloyd's building.
The film is categorized as a teen film, techno-thriller, crime film, and thriller film, with computing as its main subject. It depicts items such as floppy disks, modems, and computer viruses. The production had a budget of 20,000,000 and a runtime of 105 minutes. It was released on September 14, 1995.
Review scores vary across platforms, including a 6.2 rating on IMDb and a 6.372 average on TMDb. Other assessments include a 4.8/10 score and a 33% rating. The film's tagline is "Their crime is curiosity."
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Film · TMDB
6.4Along with his new friends, a teenager who was arrested by the US Secret Service and banned from using a computer for writing a computer virus discovers a plot by a nefarious hacker, but they must use their computer skills to find the evidence while being pursued by the Secret Service and the evil computer genius behind the virus.
Cast
- Jonny Lee Miller as Dade Murphy / 'Crash Override' / 'Zero Cool'
- Angelina Jolie as Kate Libby / 'Acid Burn'
- Matthew Lillard as Emmanuelle Goldstein / 'Cereal Killer'
- Jesse Bradford as Joey Pardella
- Renoly Santiago as Ramon Sanchez / 'Phantom Phreak'
- Laurence Mason as Paul Cook / 'Lord Nikon'
Themes
- new york city
- computer
- hacker
- computer virus
- virtual reality
- prank
- internet
- cyberpunk
- hacking
- secret service
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Iain Softley
- Written by
- Rafael Moreu
- Produced by
- Michael Peyser Ralph Winter
- Starring
- Jonny Lee Miller Angelina Jolie Fisher Stevens Lorraine Bracco
- Cinematography
- Andrzej Sekuła
- Edited by
- Christopher Blunden Martin Walsh
- Music by
- Simon Boswell
- Production company
- United Artists
- Distributed by
- MGM/UA Distribution Co. (United States) United International Pictures (international)
- Release date
- September 15, 1995 ( 1995-09-15 )
- Running time
- 105 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $20 million
- Box office
- $7.6 million
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Encyclopedic overview
Hackers is a 1995 American crime thriller film directed by Iain Softley and starring Jonny Lee Miller, Angelina Jolie, Fisher Stevens, and Lorraine Bracco, with Jesse Bradford, Matthew Lillard, Laurence Mason, and Renoly Santiago. The film follows a group of high school hackers and their involvement in an attempted theft. Made in the mid-1990s when the Internet was just starting to become popular among the general public, it reflects the ideals laid out in the Hacker Manifesto quoted in the film: "This is our world now... the world of the electron and the switch... We exist without skin color, without nationality, without religious bias... and you call us criminals... Yes, I am a criminal. My crime is that of curiosity."
The film received mixed reviews from critics, and underperformed at the box office upon release, but has gone on to achieve cult classic status.
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