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Actors: Robert Redford, Sidney Poitier, David Strathairn, Dan Aykroyd, River Phoenix, Ben Kingsley, Mary McDonnell
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Sneakers |
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Martin Brice, aka Martin Bishop (Redford) heads a team of super-hackers who specialize in testing the reliability of security systems. Brice and his team are pressured by government agents into stealing a top secret black box that is supposed to be able to crack any encryption system in the world. Twenty years ago, as a college stunt, Brice and a buddy named Cosmo (Kingsley) hacked into Nixon's bank files, the Republican National Committee, and the Federal Reserve, but Cosmo got caught and jailed. Guess who's really behind Brice's new job? This is a fairly lighthearted 1992 thriller by the writers who did "War Games," with a remarkably heavy cast of stars. (James Earl Jones has a straight-faced cameo as Bernard Abbott, director of the National Security Agency.) Strathairn shines as Erwin "Whistler" Emory, a blind phone hacker who gets to do some van driving.
--David Loftus, Resident Scholar
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SNEAKERS is a movie co-written and directed by Phil Alden Robinson in 1992.
Robert Redford's team is asked by the N.S.A. ( National Security Agency ) to spy on a scientist and to recover a program able to break the most secret computer codes.
An all-star cast for a light high-tech thriller already forgotten.
--Daniel Staebler, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Sneakers |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 15%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 50%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 35%
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1980's-1999
Spying & Terrorists
Yes
Cloak & Dagger Plotlets:
- main char doing spying/sabotage
Technology/treasure/info search
Yes
involving:
- computer info
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- small businessman
Age:
- 40's-50's
Hair color?
- blonde
Hair style
- short/standard straight (man)
Body type
- average (man)
Events of movie makes character more...
- irritated
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Very much smarter than other characters
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- (woman) short/butch/lez
How much in movie?
- 20%
- 40%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 40's-50's
Profession/status:
- mastermind
- criminal
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 20%
- 40%
Hair color
- bald
- white
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- skinny (man)
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Intelligence
- Very much smarter than other characters
Physique
- average physique
How sensitive is this character?
- mean, arrogant
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- California
City?
Yes
City:
- San Francisco
Misc setting
- scientific labs
- building
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- non-gory references to death/punishment
Movie makes you feel...
- encouraged
- frustrated
How many deaths in film?
- 3-4
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- vague references only
How much use of techno gadgets?
- 3 (some)
Kind of violence:
- hand to hand
- guns
Unusual forms of death
- perforation--bullets
Any profanity?
- Occasional swearing
If Soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Orchestra/classical
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