SNEAKERS
 
STARRING:
Robert Redford, Dan Aykroyd, Ben Kingsley, Mary McDonnell, River Phoenix, Sidney Poitier,
David Strathairn, Timothy Busfield, George Hearn, Stephen Tobolowsky, James Earl Jones
1992, 126 Minutes, Directed
by: Phil Alden Robinson
Description:
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
aging 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. —
Amazon.com
High-tech caper tale about
a specialist computer security team led by Robert Redford.
Despite its high-tech
concerns this film is somehow decidedly old-fashioned (and it has nothing to
do with Redford as the leading man) and with its flat look and sometimes
slow pacing it curiously feels like a movie made in the 'Seventies.
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