Stars: Sandra Bullock, Jeremy Northam, Dennis Miller

Director: Irwin Winkler

Summary: A freelance computer systems analyst is plunged into a web of corruption and murder when she stumbles onto a program she was never meant to see.

Angela Bennett (Sandra Bullock) is a beautiful but reclusive computer systems analyst who enjoys her lonely nights surfing the net and entering chat lines. When a friend sends her a disk with a "curious" bug, she is caught up in an Internet nightmare when she tries out the new program. When the "beta" program gains her access to some of the world's most sensitive databases, real danger is soon headed her way. Directed Irwin Winkler produced such film classics as ROCKY and GOODFELLAS.

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The Net, the first of Hollywood's big cyber-thrillers 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 Speedand While You Were Sleeping, Bullock plays a computer expert victimised by sinister cyber-forces 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 co-star. --Jim Emerson, Amazon.com

Aspect Ratio:	1.85 Wide Screen
Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Special Features:	The Net New From Gillis Featurette, HBO Special Inside The Net, Director And Producer Commentary, Writers Commentary, Filmographies, Theatrical Trailer
Subtitles:	Arabic, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Norwegian, Polish, Swedish, Turkish
Year:	1995
Release Date:	September 9, 2002
Runtime:	110 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	C D R 24128 C E
Keywords:	General, Edition, Wide, Screen, Thriller, Net, Collector's
Genre:	Thriller