The Net

ISBN 10: 0800141768 ISBN 13: 9780800141769

Publisher: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Synopsis

Sandra Bullock, Jeremy Northam and Dennis Miller star in this hit thriller about a computer expert whose life is “erased” by a computer conspiracy.

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Review

The Net, the first of Hollywood's big cyberthrillers of the mid-1990s, was also the most successful, thanks in large part to the natural appeal of star Sandra Bullock. Still riding high from Speed and While You Were Sleeping, Bullock plays a computer expert victimized by sinister cyberforces who steal her identity for reasons unknown. It's a clever combination of high-tech paranoia and Hitchcockian references (including Jeremy Northam as a romantic stranger named Devlin, after Cary Grant in Notorious). Film historians may look back someday on films like this--Roger Ebert calls them "hacksploitation"--to see what they reveal about our society's reaction to the increasing role of technology in our lives, just as we now study the fears of Communism and the atom bomb reflected in films of the 1950s. Dennis Miller and Diane Baker costar. --Jim Emerson

Edition details

• Publisher: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
• ISBN 10: 0800141768
• ISBN 13: 9780800141769
• Binding: DVD