Hackers
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Short description
Hackers follows Dade Murphy, a teenager who was fined and barred from using computers and telephones until his eighteenth birthday after crashing a large number of systems as a child. Now in a New York high school, he falls in with a group of young hackers, including Kate Libby, and their rivalry turns into a partnership when one of them stumbles onto a corporate scheme that is being disguised as a virus. Framed for the crime, the group must use their skills to expose the real culprit while evading both the Secret Service and the man behind the plot.
The film was directed by Iain Softley, arriving as the second of the seven features listed in his filmography, between Backbeat and K-PAX. Rafael Moreu wrote the screenplay, and Ralph Winter and Michael Peyser produced. Jonny Lee Miller plays Dade, with Angelina Jolie as Kate and Matthew Lillard, Jesse Bradford, Renoly Santiago and Laurence Mason among the credited cast of 62.
Released in September 1995, it runs 105 minutes across the action, crime, drama and thriller genres, and was made for 20 million dollars. Its worldwide gross of 8 million dollars fell well short of that budget. On IMDb it holds 6.2/10 from around 81,000 votes, while on TMDB it sits at 6.4/10 from roughly 1,550 votes. A critics' rating of 4.9/10 from 47 reviews places it below both audience scores.
What's left behind the scenes
- Three soundtracks were released for the film. The first album featured music heard in the film, while the two subsequent ones were remixes of music written 'based on' the film.
- Emmanuel Goldstein is the real nickname of the editor-in-chief of the semi-legal magazine '2600'.
- All the viruses launched in the final "battle" of hackers also have historical origins. Among them are Cookie Monster and Elk Cloner.
- In one episode, the FBI agent quotes "The Hacker Manifesto," which is a real statement by a hacker using the pseudonym The Mentor, published on June 6, 1986, in the semi-legal hacker magazine Phrack. The manifesto heard in the film is not the original text; it was taken from a later issue of the hacker magazine 2600.
- Paul Cook's hacker nickname, 'Lord Nikon', is a reference to the camera manufacturer Nikon. The name is fitting for the character, as he has a phenomenal (or photographic) memory.
- The surname of Emmanuel Goldstein is taken from George Orwell's novel '1984'. A reference to this novel is also present in Phantom Phreak's dream, where Agent Richard Jill says, "I’m watching you."
- The supercomputer 'Gibson' is likely a reference to William Gibson, the 'father' of cyberpunk.
- Ironically, the film's official website was hacked by unknown hackers, and the original version of the site was lost.
- The virus launched by the main character, Dade Murphy, which caused the collapse of the New York Stock Exchange, is a reference to a real event in 1988 when the famous Morris worm shut down the ARPANET network.
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