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Hackers (1995)

★ 6.4 · 1,460 ratings on TMDB

Their crime is curiosity.

Hackers poster★ 6.4

Along with his new friends, a teenager who was arrested by the US Secret Service and banned from using a computer for writing a computer virus discovers a plot by a nefarious hacker, but they must use their computer skills to find the evidence while being pursued by the Secret Service and the evil computer genius behind the virus.

DirectorIain Softley
CastAngelina Jolie, Fisher Stevens, Jesse Bradford, Jonny Lee Miller, Laurence Mason, Lorraine Bracco
GenresAction, Crime, Drama, Thriller
The emergence reading

Hackers keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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Same people

Shared director or cast.

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