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Legally forbidden from touching a computer for seven years after a legendary hack, prodigy cyberwarrior Dade Murphy, aka “Zero Cool,” aka “Crash Override” (Jonny Lee Miller) logs back on for his 18th birthday, falls in with a gang of fellow teen hackers at his NYC high school, including Angelina Jolie’s Kate “Acid Burn” Libby, and in short order finds himself tasked with saving the Earth’s oceans from a plot by Fisher Stevens’s Eugene “The Plague” Belford that involves capsizing oil tankers and embezzling millions. That’s the plot, anyways, but what keeps viewers coming back to Softley’s exuberant technothriller is its exemplification of DayGlo mid-’90s style: the pulsing hardcore house/electronica soundtrack; the crop tops, bondage trousers, rollerblades, and outlandish Club Kids fashions at the Cyberdelia nightclub; the jargon-laced, endlessly quotable screenplay by Rafael Moreu… As “The Plague” puts it, “There is no right or wrong, just fun and boring.” Well, Hackers is anything but the latter.

Distributor: Park Circus