Hackers is a 1995 American crime thriller film directed by Iain Softley and starring Jonny Lee Miller, Angelina Jolie, Jesse Bradford, Matthew Lillard, Laurence Mason, Renoly Santiago, Lorraine Bracco, and Fisher Stevens. The film follows a group of high school hackers and their involvement in a corporate extortion conspiracy. Made in the mid-1990s when the Internet was unfamiliar to the general public, it reflects the ideals laid out in the Hacker Manifesto quoted in the film: "This is our world now... the world of the electron and the switch [...] We exist without skin color, without nationality, without religious bias... and you call us criminals. [...] Yes, I am a criminal. My crime is that of curiosity." The film received mixed reviews from critics, and underperformed at the box office upon release, but has gone on to achieve cult classic status.
Cast[]
- Jonny Lee Miller as Dade Murphy / "Zero Cool" / "Crash Override"
- Angelina Jolie as Kate Libby / "Acid Burn"
- Jesse Bradford as Joey Pardella
- Matthew Lillard as Emmanuel Goldstein / "Cereal Killer"
- Laurence Mason as Paul Cook / "Lord Nikon"
- Renoly Santiago as Ramόn Sánchez / "The Phantom Phreak"
- Fisher Stevens as "The Plague" / Eugene Belford
- Lorraine Bracco as Margo Wallace
- Alberta Watson as Lauren Murphy
- Darren Lee as Razor
- Peter Y. Kim as Blade
- Penn Jillette as Hal
- Wendell Pierce as U.S. Secret Service Special Agent Richard Gill
- Marc Anthony as U.S. Secret Service Special Agent Ray
- Michael Gaston as U.S. Secret Service Special Agent Bob
- Felicity Huffman as Prosecuting Attorney
- Max Ligosh as young Dade