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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.
Released: 1995-09-14105 minDir: Iain SoftleyAction, Crime, Thriller, DramaBudget: $20.0MBox office: $7.6M
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
Article
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.