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Hackers (1995)
Info:
- Release Date: September 15, 1995
- Creators: Ian Softley (director), Rafael Moreu (writer)
- Genre: Misunderstood Hackers
- Rating: ★★★★☆
Plot:
- You're probably under the mistaken impression that this film is about Crash Override and Acid Burn's wacky hacking misadventures with their buddies Phantom Phreak and Cereal Killer. Actually, it's a very short, ten minute film about two great hackers, Razor and Blade, who run their own cable-access TV show ("Hack the Planet") and decide to help out the not-as-cool hackers. I keep wondering why they added the extra 80 minutes...
Notes:
- Crash Override actually believing the old "swimming pool on the roof" lore of high school. Things do not bode well for the intellectual prowess of our hero
- Angelina Jolie as Acid Burn. Sure, she seemed excessively bitchy at times, but she was never boring.
- Renoly Santiago as the sexy Phantom Phreak. Was anyone else entirely upset when our heroes left him in jail to rot? What good are having hacker buddies if they don't spring you from jail when you get nabbed?
- Cereal Killer with horrendously awful hair in itty, bitty braids. Despite his gleeful obnoxiousness (or is that because of it?), I'm kind of fond of him.
- And for my money, Crash should have worn that red dress on the date.
- True story: while working at Columbia Univesity in 2016, the Science and Engineering Library had a slideshow with the Hackers group above the quote: "Hack the Gibson." My heart swelled three sizes too big that day.
Cast:
- Jonny Lee Miller as Crash Override
- Angelina Jolie as Acid Burn
- Jesse Bradford as Joey
- Renoly Santiago as Phantom Phreak
- Matthew Lillard as Cereal Killer
- Laurence Mason as Lord Nikon
- Fisher Stevens as The Plague
- Lorraine Bracco as Margo
- Marc Anthony as Agent Ray
- Penn Jillette as Hal
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