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1997 film by Lynn Hershman Leeson

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4.7

Emmy Coer, a computer genius, devises a method of communicating with the past by tapping into undying information waves. She manages to reach the world of Ada Lovelace, founder of the idea of a computer language and proponent of the possibilities of the "difference engine." Ada's ideas were stifled and unfulfilled because of the reality of life as a woman in the nineteenth century. Emmy has a plan to defeat death and the past using her own DNA as a communicative agent to the past, bringing Ada to the present. But what are the possible ramifications?

Released: 1999-02-1985 minDir: Lynn Hershman-LeesonScience Fiction, Drama, Fantasy

Cast

  • Tilda Swinton as Ada Augusta Byron King, Countess of Lovelace
  • Francesca Faridany as Emmy Coer
  • Timothy Leary as Sims
  • Karen Black as Lady Byron / Mother Coer
  • John Perry Barlow as John Crosse
  • John O'Keefe as Charles Babbage

Themes

  • woman director

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IMDb

5/10

527 votes

Rotten Tomatoes

83%

Year
1997
Runtime
85 min
Genres
Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Rated
Not Rated
Awards
1 nomination

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Duration
85
FilmAffinity ID
186159
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publication date
1997-01-01
title
Conceiving Ada
review score
6.6/10
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