THE HACKERS

CHARACTERS:

• Jonny Lee Miller as Dade Murphy alias Crash Override aka Zero Cool
• Angelina Jolie as Kate Libby alias Acid Burn.
• Renoly Santiago as Ramόn Sánchez alias The Phantom Phreak
• Matthew Lillard as Emmanuel Goldstein alias Cereal Killer
• Laurence Mason as Paul Cook alias Lord Nikon
• Jesse Bradford as Joey Pardella
• Fisher Stevens as Eugene Belford alias The Plague
• Lorraine Bracco as Margo Wallace
• Alberta Watson as Lauren Murphy

SUMMARY:

In this high-tech thriller, Dade Murphy 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, junior hacker, born prankster Cereal Killer, Nikon, named for his photographic memory, and telephone expert Phantom Phreak. 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, 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. 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.

IMPLICATIOPNS:

In this movie, "The Hackers" implies a correct attitude in using a computer. Even if your good at it, you shoudnt use your computer ability in bad ways so that you cant harm other people.

REACTION:

There are lots of people already that are using computer these days, some are already very good at it. With all the things happening these days in this world, this film will help us realize the importance of of honesty in cyberworld, it guiedes us whats the right thing to do.