The Net (1995)
Genre: Thriller / Crime
Duration: 114 minuten
Country:
United States
Directed by: Irwin Winkler
Stars: Sandra Bullock, Jeremy Northam and Dennis Miller
IMDb score:
6,0 (80.547)
Releasedate: 28 July 1995
The Net plot
"No driver's license, no credit cards, no passport, no access to her bank accounts in a foreign country ... She finds her identity stolen."
Angela Bennett works as a systems analyst for a computer company, where she checks software for errors. Like many computer geeks, she leads an isolated life in her office and her contacts with the outside world are via the internet. When she obtains a disc containing confidential information from an American spy cell, the dolls start dancing. She escapes an attack during her vacation in Mexico. When she comes home, her identity has been erased. Officially, it no longer exists in any database.
Actors and actresses
Angela Bennett / Ruth Marx
Jack Devlin
Dr. Alan Champion
Ruth Marx
Michael Bergstrom
Mrs. Bennett
Dale Hessman
WNN Anchor
Public Defender
Ben Phillips
Reviews & comments
movie acteurs
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- 3104 messages
- 3302 votes
Like it. Anyway, I thought Bullock played well in this.
But the story just didn't grab me at the time. In itself, the idea of identity theft was still relatively unknown at the time and seemed very unlikely.
Now we know better and the film instills much more fear in me.
So I give it a 3.5 for a movie that was apparently ahead of its time at the time.
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IH88
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- 9842 messages
- 3203 votes
“Computers are your life, aren't they?”
“Yes. The perfect hiding place.”
Nice cyber thriller. It doesn't get really exciting and the bad guys do the stupidest things, but Sandra Bullock is always good and the story itself is entertaining. Floppies, slow internet connections and computer refrigerators, those good old days. Nostalgia and Bullock, they make you condone the flat script and the dull moments.
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Dievegge
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What if a group of hackers can hack into the Pentagon's computer, tamper with medical records, loot your bank account, influence election results or - worse - fake the MM Top 250? With the rise of the internet in the 1990s, paranoia arose around the threat that a large part of our identity is in our computer. The events here have been exaggerated in some ways, but some threats have nevertheless become reality. Identity theft is committed by scammers; by phishing or via Trojan horses. People who pretend to be a security guard are sometimes unreliable themselves.
Sandra Bullock was a fresh face in the 90s. We get to know her as a socially isolated computer geek. With the emergence of new media, cocooning became a phenomenon in that period. At home she is completely surrounded by electronic devices, all her communication goes along that route. It partially blossoms on vacation in Cozumel, a paradise island on Mexico's east coast. Socially naive, she makes the mistake of trusting the wrong man.
The cyberthriller was a new genre. The lack of credibility is compensated by the fast pace. The camera moves a lot. There is a smooth alternation between dialogues, computer screens and action scenes. There are several references to Hitchcock, e.g. the horse mill in Strangers on a Train. It's an exciting, time-bound piece of entertainment that makes you think about some real dangers.
Translated from Dutch · View originalPre- and sequels
The Net 2.0
2006
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