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Overall Rank: 12851
Average Rating: 2.3/4
# of Ratings: 86
Theatrical Release Date: 07/28/1995
Language: English
Genre: Crime, Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Irwin Winkler
Actors: Sandra Bullock, Jeremy Northam, Dennis Miller, Diane Baker, Wendy Gazelle, Ken Howard
Plot: A woman tries to regain her true identity while trying to gather proof a a politically-motivated conspiracy.
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2/4
Indyfreak - wrote on 11/16/2022
Cheesy technothriller which still has a solid turn by Sandra Bullock.
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1.5/4
Yojimbo - wrote on 11/16/2012
Journeyman thriller that sees Sandra Bullock victimized over the internet in a gimmicky identity theft plot device. Again, Sandra is nice to look at, but very little suspense or tension is generated during the proceedings. If you're insistent on seeing this type of film, Enemy Of The State is better.
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2.5/4
sapien - wrote on 03/01/2010
Ah yes, the movie about the early interwebs. It's a decent movie.
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2.5/4
Decent Cyber Thriller!
MovieAddict - wrote on 10/29/2012
This film was made in 1995, when the Internet was becoming a curiosity with people around the world. Sandra Bullock stars as Angela Bennett, a computer analyzer who lives and breathes computers. She works out of her L.A. area home and does everything by the net- order pizza, book airline tickets and even her neighbors hardly ever see her. She goes on a much-needed vacation, where she meets an apparently nice British fellow, but quickly finds that not all is as it appears to be when her identity is stolen and her mother who is suffering from Alzheimer's doesn't even remember Angela’s name or who she is.
Jeremy Northam is perfect as the bad guy who can't seem to decide whether he wants to prolong the sexual tension of the chase or just kill her and get it over with. The scene where …
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2.5/4
A pretty good mystery
The M.O.W. - wrote on 08/03/2008
"Angela" (Sandra Bullock) is a computer geek. She works and plays with computers on a daily basis.
One day, she comes across a computer program that proves the recent suicide of a high ranking official (Ken Howard) in the Pentagon was actually a set up to kill him. The man who sent her the program, which acted like a computer virus, is killed in an airplane crash, and her life is turned upside down.
On vacation to Mexico, she loses everything that identifies her and quickly learns that all public accessible records on her have been changed to a new identity.
Now, she has to run from the people who are trying to killer her and get back the information she has that proves the conspiracy. Only close friends can help her, but they pay the ultimate price as she tries to regain her …
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