The Net

MPAA Rating

PG-13

Theatrical Release Date

Jul 27, 1995

Genre(s)

• Espionage
• Tony Scott
• Suspense
• Miscarriage of Justice
• Mystery & Suspense

Rating (Stars)

Description

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

Director

Irwin Winkler

Stars

• Sandra Bullock
• Jeremy Northam
• Dennis Miller
• Diane Baker
• Wendy Gazelle

Running Time

114 minutes

Original Price

$14.94

Current Value

$3.00

DVD Features

• Closed-captioned
• Color
• Dolby
• DVD-Video
• Full Screen
• Letterboxed
• Widescreen
• NTSC
• 1.85:1