Hackers (1995)

Director
Iain Softley

Main cast
Jonny Lee Miller; Angelina Jolie; Jesse Bradford; Matthew Lillard; Renoly Santiago

Genres
Action, Crime, Thriller, Drama

Description
Along with his new friends, a teenager who was arrested by the US Secret Service and banned from using a computer for writing a computer virus discovers a plot by a nefarious hacker, but they must use their computer skills to find the evidence while being pursued by the Secret Service and the evil computer genius behind the virus.


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