Hackers

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Originally released as a motion picture in 1995.
Widescreen.
Special features: The keyboard cowboys: a look back at Hackers - brand-new interviews with director Iain Softley, cast members Fisher Stevens and Penn Jillette, costume designer Roger Burton, visual effects artist Peter Chiang, hacking consultants Nicholas Jarecki and Emmanuel Goldstein and film critic Mark Kermode; original trailer.
Angelina Jolie, Matthew Lillard, Johnny Lee Miller, Jesse Bradford, Fisher Stevens, Lorraine Bracco, Penn Jillette, Felicity Huffman.
While practicing the tricks of the trade, a neophyte "hacker" accomplishes the nearly impossible: he hacks the highly secured computer at the Ellingson Mineral Corporation. But in doing so, he unknowingly taps into a high-tech embezzling scheme masked by a computer virus with the potential to destroy the world's ecosystem! And when the young hacker and his pals are targeted for the crime, the group must launch a massive cyberspace attack, one that will hopefully clear their names.
Blu-ray, region A; widescreen (2.35:1); DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0; requires Blu-ray player.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

An Amusing Time Capsule submitted by Meginator on August 22, 2022, 9:33am Okay, so this is not really a good film and it has a lot of fundamental flaws that make it truly cringeworthy, but something about its mid-90s earnestness and bizarre understanding of computers (even by the standards of the time) lends it a bit of retro charm. I did find it exceedingly difficult to follow the plot at times and the characters are awfully thin, but the visual aesthetic has a consistent post-cyberpunk vibe to it that is aided by surprisingly good (in context) graphics. I’m not sure I can really recommend this to anyone but the most nostalgia-minded, but it’s not offensively bad and it does offer a chance to step back in time to an era when computers and hacking were still niche interests.