Sneakers

1992

Action / Comedy / Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller

65
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 80% · 61 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 80% · 25K ratings
IMDb Rating 7.1/10 10 67404 67.4K

hacker mathematician assignment calm relaxed sympathetic

Plot summary

When shadowy U.S. intelligence agents blackmail a reformed computer hacker and his eccentric team of security experts into stealing a code-breaking 'black box' from a Soviet-funded genius, they uncover a bigger conspiracy. Now, he and his 'sneakers' must save themselves and the world economy by retrieving the box from their blackmailers.

Director

Phil Alden Robinson Photo
Phil Alden Robinson

Top cast

John Shepard Photo
John Shepard as Coolidge Institute Guard
Ben Kingsley Photo
Ben Kingsley as Cosmo
Amy Benedict Photo
Amy Benedict as NSA Agent Mary
Mary McDonnell Photo
Mary McDonnell as Liz
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910.16 MB
1280*700
English 2.0
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23.976 fps
2 hr 6 min
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1.9 GB
1904*1040
English 2.0
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5.61 GB
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23.976 fps
2 hr 6 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Rushmore_Elite 7 / 10

Guilty Pleasure

There are a bunch of movies which might not be GREAT, but really good, and you can watch them over and over again. Rainy day movies. "Sneakers" is without a doubt such a movie.It is a lightweight caper which gets into a higher division thanks to the acting: Redford is always good, as is Strathairn, Kingsley and McDonnell. The other actors do a really good job as well, but these four stand out in my opinion.There are twists and turns in the script, Great San Francisco locations and lots of underplayed humor in this film, all contributing to that the movie can be seen several times.Take it for what it is, and you'll have a really good time in front of the TV.
Reviewed by Larry41OnEbay-2 7 / 10

Amazing bit of trivia in the middle of this film makes it even more entertaining today!

At a key point in the plot, the device that might be able to get past any computer encrypted password needs to be tested. Carl (River Phoenix) is asked what is the hardest computer to hack into, "give me the number for something impossible to access." He answers, "The Federal Reserve transfer node, Culpeper, Virginia." Mother (Dan Aykroyd) adds, "900 billion a day goes through there."Between December 10, 1969 and July 1992, this same building in Culpeper housed four computers through which the majority of transactions of the 5,700 US banks were processed. It was also a bomb bunker that stored about four billion dollars cash. These cash reserves and computers could be used to keep business transactions going on throughout the eastern half of the United States in the event that Washington DC was bombed in a nuclear war making cash there radioactive and unusable. Interestingly this build was decommissioned in June of 1992 just months before the film "Sneakers" opened in September of 1992. Since 2007 this building has been home to the National Audio-Visual Conservation Center at the Packard Campus of the Library of Congress where over 6 million items of the nation's audio recordings, television and motion pictures are stored and preserved, including the copyright print of "Sneakers."
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