Stars: Robert Redford, Dan Aykroyd, Ben Kingsley, Mary McDonnell, River Phoenix, Sidney Poitier, David Strathairn, James Earl Jones, James Earl Jones, James Earl Jones

Director: Phil Alden Robinson

Summary: As college students in the 60s, Martin Bishop and his pal Cosmo were computer pranksters who wired donations from the Republican Party to the Black Panthers. Twenty-five years later they head a team of experts who are hired to penetrate systems and test their security...

A computer expert (Robert Redford) heads a team of renegade hackers who test security systems. His past comes back to haunt him when government agents blackmail the "Sneakers" into carrying out a covert operation: track down an elusive black box filled with national security secrets.

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This enjoyable thriller, written and directed by Phil Alden Robinson (the screenwriter of Field of Dreams), follows a raggedy group of corporate security experts who get in over their heads when they accept an assignment poaching some hot hardware for the National Security Agency. Robert Redford plays the group's guru, an ageing techno-anarchist who has been hiding from the feds since the early 1970s; his companionable gang of freaks includes Dan Aykroyd, David Strathairn, Mary McDonnell, the late River Phoenix, and Sidney Poitier, as a veteran CIA operative turned "sneaker." The technological black box that everybody is after, an array of computer chips that can decode any encrypted message, isn't a very plausible invention, but it's a serviceable McGuffin, and the megalomania of the master plotter played by Ben Kingsley has more resonance than most. Modest inferences can be drawn about the very latest high-tech threats to civil liberties. --David Chute, Amazon.com

Aspect Ratio:	1.85 Anamorphic Wide Screen
Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Special Features:	Production Notes, Original Theatrical Trailer, Cast And Filmmakers Notes
Subtitles:	Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Swedish
Year:	1992
Release Date:	June 6, 2005
Runtime:	120 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	820 508 9
Keywords:	Action, Comedy, General, Wide, Screen, Adventure, Sneakers
Genre:	Action/Adventure