Hackers [VHS]

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	Actor(s):	Jonny Lee Miller Angelina Jolie Jesse Bradford Matthew Lillard Laurence Mason
	Video by:	MGM (Video & DVD)
	Sales Rank:	254522

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Actor(s):
Jonny Lee Miller
Angelina Jolie
Jesse Bradford
Matthew Lillard
Laurence Mason

Creators:
Iain Softley (Producer)
Jacob Peratrovich (Producer)
Janet Graham (Producer)
Michael Peyser (Producer)
Ralph Winter (Producer)
Selwyn Roberts (Producer)
Rafael Moreu (Writer)

Director(s):
Iain Softley

Recording label: MGM (Video & DVD)
EAN: 9780792844679
Binding: VHS Tape
ISBN: 079284467X
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Original recording reissued, NTSC,
Release Date: 2000-04-04
Universal product code (UPC): 027616696038
Number of discs: 1
Audience rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)

Amazon.com
As a depiction of the computer-hacker underground, this movie is bogus to the bone. As a thriller, it's cartoonish and conventional. The premise (computer-happy kids hack into the wrong system, and the Forces of Repression come after them) is recycled from John Badham's 1983 WarGames. And the corporate-creep bad guy, played by Fisher Stevens, steeples his fingers and growls mossy villainous clichés. ("By the time they realize the truth, we'll be long gone with all the money.") For all its postmodern trappings the movie is working with sub-prehistoric storytelling tools. But it does succeed on one level, as a movie about adolescent bonding and alienation. The director, Iain Softley, helmed the Beatles-in-Hamburg biopic Backbeat, and he seems to have an instinct for the emotions that pull kids together around common interests and the insecurities that drive them apart. The familiar crises of loyalty and betrayal have an ache of real loneliness. It doesn't hurt that the two stars, Jonny Lee Miller (Sick Boy Williamson in Trainspotting) and Angelina Jolie (Gia), are just about equally gorgeous and charismatic; their longing glances steam up the screen. --David Chute

Running time: 107 minutes
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