Along 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.
Costume
Every outfit is a crime against fashion and I want them all.
Production
Hacker 'interfaces' that look like a rave threw up on a screensaver.
Acting
Angelina Jolie's smirk could power the entire internet.
Director
Iain Softley
Jonny Lee Miller
Dade Murphy / 'Crash Override' / 'Zero Cool'
Angelina Jolie
Kate Libby / 'Acid Burn'
Matthew Lillard
Emmanuelle Goldstein / 'Cereal Killer'
Jesse Bradford
Joey Pardella
Renoly Santiago
Ramon Sanchez / 'Phantom Phreak'
Laurence Mason
Paul Cook / 'Lord Nikon'
Fisher Stevens
Eugene Belford / 'The Plague' / Mr. Babbage
Lorraine Bracco
Margo
Wendell Pierce
S.S. Agent Richard Gill
Michael Gaston
S.S. Agent Bob
Marc Anthony
S.S. Agent Ray
Penn Jillette
Hal
Peter Y. Kim
Blade
Darren Lee
Razor
Alberta Watson
Lauren Murphy
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This film single-handedly created the Hollywood hacker aesthetic—every typing scene since owes it a debt.
Real hackers were hired as consultants and allegedly left actual backdoors in the production systems as pranks.
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