Hackers (1995)
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34% of critics liked it
(41 reviews) -
66% of users liked it
(115,006 ratings)
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… More 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 until his 18th birthday, but now that he's of age, he's diving back into his PC head first. Dade meets up with a group of fellow hackers: tough-talking cyber gamer Kate, aka Acid Burn (Angelina Jolie), junior hacker Jesse Bradford, born prankster Cereal Killer (Matthew Lillard), Nikon (Lawrence Mason), named for his photographic memory, and telephone expert Phantom Phreak (Renoly Santiago). Dade and his pals aren't out to destroy systems or do cybercrime for profit; they simply want to know more about the systems they encounter, and they like raising some good-natured havoc. But in their travels through cyberspace, they discover The Plague (Fisher Stevens), a former hacker turned computer security expert with a huge multinational corporation. The Plague has not only done the unthinkable and gone into anti-hacker enforcement, he's secretly allied himself with a group of criminals and is using his expertise to drain funds from corporate bank accounts and transfer them to himself and his mistress, Margo (Lorraine Bracco). The Plague is also smart enough to leave clues that would lead investigators to someone else -- in this case, Dade and his friends -- and has a secret weapon at his disposal, a computer virus that could wipe out the entire world wide web in a matter of minutes. Several sequences for Hackers were shot at New York City's Stuyvesant High School, where coincidentally several months after filming, several students were arrested by F.B.I. agents for their involvement in computer hacking. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
- Directed By
- Iain Softley
- Written By
- Rafael Moreu
- Genres
- Action & Adventure, Mystery & Suspense, Science Fiction & Fantasy
- In Theaters
- Sep 15, 1995 Wide
- On DVD
- Apr 24, 2001
- Studio
- MGM Home Entertainment
Critic Reviews
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Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer
Hackers isn't a very good movie, but it's a darn sight more fun than The Net.
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Jay Boyar, Orlando Sentinel
After the mechanics of the thriller plot start to kick in, the film drags. And when it's time for the big cyber-showdown, we're stuck, once again, with footage of frantic typing.
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Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune
This is a movie that sums up the worst of the computer era: zapping you with techno-cliches and trapping you in constant visual crash and burn.
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Bruce Diones, New Yorker
The story is negligible, but it offers the same order of fun as a good rock video: the marriage of images and music.
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Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly
What's most grating about Hackers, however, is the guileless way the movie buys in to the computer-kid-as-elite-rebel mystique currently being peddled by magazines like Wired.
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Cast
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Jonny Lee Miller
as Dade Murphy/Crash Override/Zero Cool
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Angelina Jolie
as Kate/Acid Burn
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Jesse Bradford
as Joey
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Matthew Lillard
as Emmanuel Goldstein "Cereal Killer"
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Lawrence Mason
as Nikon
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Renoly Santiago
as Phantom Phreak
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Lorraine Bracco
as Margo
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Mike Cicchetti
as Ellingson Guard
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Jeb Handwerger
as Freshman On Roof
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Jeff Harding
as V.P.'s
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Felicity Huffman
as Attorney
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Peter Kim
as Blade
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Gary Howard Klar
as Mr Simpson
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Eric Loren
as News Technician
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Wendell Pierce
as Agent Dick Gill
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Ricco Ross
as Reporter
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Tony Sibbald
as Jail Guard
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Fisher Stevens
as Eugene "The Plague"
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Liza Walker
as Laura
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Alberta Watson
as Lauren Murphy
- Don Hewitt Sr.
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Penn Jillette
as Hal
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Dave Stewart
as London Hacker
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Ralph Winter
as V.P.'s
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Sam Douglas
as English Teacher
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Johnny Myers
as Sysops Technician
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Bob Sessions
as Mr Ellingson
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Ethan Browne
as Curtis
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Michael Gaston
as Agent Bob
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Darren Lee
as Razor
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Tom Clarke Hill
as S.S. Agent
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Nancy Ticotin
as Phreak's Mom
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Terry Porter
as Joey's Mom
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Olegario Fedoro
as Russian Hacker
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Naoko Mori
as Tokyo Hacker
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Marc Anthony
as Agent Ray
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Kristin Moreau
as Flight Attendant
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Paul Klementowicz
as Michael Murphy
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Max Ligosh
as Young Dade
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Ravil Isyanov
as Russian Hacker
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Kal Weber
as V.P.
- Jennifer Badger
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Richard Ziman
as Judge
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Mick O'Rourke
as Phone Repairman
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Michael Potts
as Tow Truck Driver
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William DeMeo
as Jock
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Steven Angiolini
as Rollerblader
- Melissa Barkan
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Kevin Brewerton
as Sysops Technician
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Denise George
as Denise
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Roberta Gotti
as Italian Hacker
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Douglas W. Iles
as Addict Hank
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Enzo Junior
as Da Vinci Virus
- Joseph Lloyd
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Bill Maul
as Norm
- Christo Morse
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Mitchell Nguyen-McCormick
as Freshman On Roof
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Richard Purro
as Talkshow Host
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Jennifer Rice
as Reporter
- Felix Santiago
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Kimbra Standish
as Receptionist
- Christopher Waller
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Blake Willett
as S.S. Agent Seattle
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Yoshinori Yamamoto
as V.P.
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Annemarie Zola
as Addict Vickie
- Laurence Mason


