Hackers

PG-13 1995 | 105 mins | Drama Action Adventure

Only in the movies can super-smart computer hackers look like Jonny Lee Miller and Angelina Jolie. In a 1990s spin on WarGames, the future real-life husband and wife team up to take on the Secret Service and an evil corporate mastermind. Viruses, computer codes and hidden disks may sound a little antiquated, but bona fide chemistry between beautiful young people on the run never gets old.


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  1. Angelina Jolie's role was originally offered to future Grey's Anatomy star Katherine Heigl - who had to turn down the part because she'd already committed herself to play Steven Seagal's niece in Under Siege 2: Dark Territory.
  2. Other contenders for the role of Kate "Acid Burn" Libby: Liv Tyler, Heather Graham, and future Oscar-winner Hilary Swank.
  3. It's a good thing the part eventually went to Jolie - she fell in love with her co-star Jonny Lee Miller and the two were married in 1996 (fortunately for Brad Pitt, they were divorced in 1999).
  4. Extra credit: many of the film's extras were real seniors at Stuyvesant High School in Manhattan, the setting for "Stanton High School" in the movie.
  5. Stuyvesant High is located across the street from the former site of the World Trade Center, and miraculously suffered very little damage during the 9/11 attacks. The school was actually used as the base of operations for rescue efforts.
  6. A promotional website for the movie was (naturally) hacked by a group calling itself the "Internet Liberation Front." The movie studio opted to leave the hacked version of the site online - leading countless Internet nerds and conspiracy theorists to suspect an inside job.
  7. The cyberspace sequences were created without the use of CGI. Director Iain Softley explained that he chose "more conventional methods of motion control, animation, models and rotoscoping to create a real, three-dimensional world."
  8. The name game: Penn Jillette's character is named Hal, a reference to the mighty computer HAL9000 in 2001: A Space Odyssey.
  9. The name game, part 2: Matthew Lillard's character is named Emmanuel Goldstein, which is both a character in the George Orwell novel 1984 and a pseudonym used by famed hacker Eric Corley.
  10. That's a thumbs up: Roger Ebert gave the film a positive review, explaining that you'd be entertained so long as you didn't take the computer stuff too seriously. Ebert said, "I took it approximately as seriously as the archeology in Indiana Jones." Wait, is he saying that real archaeologists don't run around with whips?

Cast


Jonny Lee Miller
Angelina Jolie
Jesse Bradford
Matthew Lillard
Laurence Mason
Renoly Santiago
Fisher Stevens
Alberta Watson
Darren Lee
Peter Y. Kim
Ethan Browne
Lorraine Bracco
Wendell Pierce
Michael Gaston
Marc Anthony
Dade Murphy
Kate Libby
Joey Pardella
Emmanuel Goldstein
Paul Cook
Ramon Sanchez
Eugene Belford
Lauren Murphy
Razor
Blade
Curtis
Margo
S.S. Agent Richard Gill
S.S. Agent Bob
S.S. Agent Ray

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Iain Softley
Rafael Moreu
Iain Softley
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