The Net (1995) USA
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Director:Irwin Winkler
Studio:Sony Pictures
Writer:John D. Brancato, Michael Ferris
Rating:4.0 (71 votes)
Rated:PG-13
ASIN:0800141768
UPC:9780800141769
Price:$14.94
Awards:1 nomination
Genre:Thriller
Release:2001-03-06
IMDb:0113957
Duration:114
Picture Format:Anamorphic Widescreen
Aspect Ratio:1.85:1
Sound:Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Languages:English, French, Spanish
Subtitles:Korean, Spanish
Irwin Winkler  ...  (Director)
John D. Brancato, Michael Ferris  ...  (Writer)
 
Sandra Bullock  ...  Angela Bennett/Ruth Marx
Jeremy Northam  ...  Jack Devlin
Dennis Miller  ...  Dr. Alan Champion
Diane Baker  ...  Mrs. Bennett
Wendy Gazelle  ...  Ruth Marx
Ken Howard  ...  Michael Bergstrom
Ray McKinnon  ...  Dale Hessman
Daniel Schorr  ...  WNN Anchor
L. Scott Caldwell  ...  Public Defender
Robert Gossett  ...  Ben Phillips
Kristina Krofft  ...  Nurse #1
Juan García  ...  Resort Desk Clerk
Tony Perez  ...  Mexican Doctor
Margo Winkler  ...  Mrs. Raines
Gene Kirkwood  ...  Stan Whiteman
Comments: Her driver's license. Her credit cards. Her bank accounts. Her identity. DELETED.

Summary: "The Net", the first of Hollywood's big cyberthrillers of the mid-1990s, was also the most successful, thanks in large part to the natural appeal of star Sandra Bullock. Still riding high from "Speed" and "While You Were Sleeping", Bullock plays a computer expert victimized by sinister cyberforces who steal her identity for reasons unknown. It's a clever combination of high-tech paranoia and Hitchcockian references (including Jeremy Northam as a romantic stranger named Devlin, after Cary Grant in "Notorious"). Film historians may look back someday on films like this--Roger Ebert calls them "hacksploitation"--to see what they reveal about our society's reaction to the increasing role of technology in our lives, just as we now study the fears of Communism and the atom bomb reflected in films of the 1950s. Dennis Miller and Diane Baker costar. "--Jim Emerson"