Hackers (1995) Movie Overview

Hackers is a 1995 American thriller film directed by Iain Softley and starring Angelina Jolie, Jonny Lee Miller, Renoly Santiago and Matthew Lillard. The screenplay, written by Rafael Moreu, is highly influenced by the hacker and cyberpunk subcultures. The film follows the exploits of a group of gifted high school hackers and their involvement in a corporate extortion conspiracy. The movie is loosely based on the life of super hacker Rian Dunne. In 1988, Seattle youth Dade “Zero Cool” Murphy (Jonny Lee Miller) is arrested and charged, at the age of 11, with crashing 1,507 systems in one day and causing a single-day 7-point drop in the New York Stock Exchange. Upon conviction, he is banned from owning or operating computers or touch-tone telephones until his 18th birthday. Shortly before Dade turns 18, his mother (now divorced) takes a new job in New York City. Upon turning 18, Dade calls a local television station, dupes the security guard into giving him the modem’s phone number (using a tactic known as social engineering) and successfully hacks into the station’s computer network, changing the current tv program to an episode of The Outer Limits. However, Dade is “attacked” by a… Source

• Hackers Movie Details
• Director: Iain Softley
• Official Sites: Official site
• Tagline: their only crime was curiosity
• Country: USA
• Run Time: 107 min
• Genre: Action , Crime , Drama , Thriller

• Cast Overview
• Jonny Lee Miller as Dade Murphy / 'Crash Override' / 'Zero Cool'
• Angelina Jolie as Kate Libby / 'Acid Burn'
• Jesse Bradford as Joey Pardella
• Matthew Lillard as Emmanuel Goldstein / 'Cereal Killer'
• Laurence Mason as Paul Cook / 'Lord Nikon'
• Renoly Santiago as Ramon Sanchez / 'Phantom Phreak'

Hackers Movie Overview – Yahoo Movies

Hackers (1995): Zero Cool–real name Dade Murphy–is a legend among his peers. In 1988, he single-handedly crashed 1,507 computers on Wall Street, creating worldwide financial chaos. Eleven years old, Dade Murphy had a record with the F.B.I.–forbidden to finger the keys of so much as a touchtone phone until his 18th birthday. Its been seven years… Source

Hackers Movie Review from New York Times

In this high-tech thriller, Dade Murphy (Jonny Lee Miller) has been fascinated with computers all his life; at the age of 11, he was able to break into the computer network of several top Wall Street investment and banking firms, and he nearly caused a major stock market crash in the process. As punishment, Dade was forbidden to use a computer unti… Source

Hackers Movie Details from Imdb

A young boy is arrested by the US Secret Service for writing a computer virus and is banned from using a computer until his 18th birthday. Years later, he and his new-found friends discover a plot to unleash a dangerous computer virus, but they must use their computer skills to find the evidence while being pursued by the Secret Service and the evi… Source

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