The Net (1995)

User Rating:

5.6/10   

Director:

Irwin Winkler

Writers (WGA):

John D. Brancato (written by) &
Michael Ferris (written by)

Release Date:

28 July 1995 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller

Tagline:

Her driver's license. Her credit cards. Her bank accounts. Her identity. DELETED.

Plot:

Angela Bennett's a software engineer type who works from home and has few friends outside of cyberspace...

Plot Keywords:

Computer | Vacation | Secret | Espionage | Identity

Awards:

1 nomination

Cast

Sandra Bullock	...	Angela Bennett / Ruth Marx
Jeremy Northam	...	Jack Devlin
Dennis Miller	...	Dr. Alan Champion
Diane Baker	...	Mrs. Bennett
Wendy Gazelle	...	Ruth Marx
Ken Howard	...	Michael Bergstrom
Ray McKinnon	...	Dale Hessman
Daniel Schorr	...	WNN Anchor
L. Scott Caldwell	...	Public Defender
Robert Gossett	...	Ben Phillips
Kristina Krofft	...	Nurse #1
Juan García	...	Resort Desk Clerk
Tony Perez	...	Mexican Doctor
Margo Winkler	...	Mrs. Raines
Gene Kirkwood	...	Stan Whiteman

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for violence, some sexuality and brief strong language.

Runtime:

114 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English | Spanish

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby SR | SDDS (8 channels)

Certification:

Canada:14 (Nova Scotia) | Canada:G (Quebec) | Canada:PG (Manitoba/Ontario) | Iceland:12 | South Korea:15 | Argentina:13 | Australia:M | Finland:K-12 | Germany:12 | Portugal:M/12 | Singapore:PG | Spain:T | Sweden:15 | UK:12 | USA:PG-13

Filming Locations:

Alameda, California, USA

Company:

Columbia Pictures Corporation

Trivia:

The game that Angela (Sandra Bullock) is playing/debugging at the beginning of the movie is the Apple version of Wolfenstein 3D, similar to the console editions of the game released on the Atari Jaguar and 3DO.

Goofs:

Factual errors: The Macintosh virus Angela found would not be able to infect a mainframe computer.

Quotes:

Dr. Alan Champion: Will you be handling the outpatient care, nurse?
Angela: Well, do you mind?
Dr. Alan Champion: Visions of sponge baths dance in my head.

Movie Connections:

Featured in "HBO First Look: Inside 'The Net' (#2.3)" (1995)

Soundtrack:

BLANCA ROSA

Silly suspense

Made and released at the time when the internet was just becoming huge, this is a storyline Hitchcock would have loved.

Sadly, Hitchcock wasn't around to make it, and we're left with an occasionally suspenseful but mostly silly thriller, that is held (barely) together by Bullock's intelligence.

It was released in 1995 but is already dated, and the amount of mistakes and inaccuaracies regarding computers must be seen to be believed, and you don't even have to be a dot.com person to spot them!