Sneakers is a 1992 caper film directed by Phil Alden Robinson and written by Robinson, Walter F. Parkes and Lawrence Lasker. It was filmed in late 1991 and released in 1992.
Martin Brice (Robert Redford), a hacker, has kept to his assumed name of Martin Bishop after narrowly avoiding capture for hacking US government computers in 1969, a fate that his friend Cosmo (Ben Kingsley) didn't escape. In the present, Martin runs a tiger team of "security...
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Sneakers is a 1992 caper film directed by Phil Alden Robinson and written by Robinson, Walter F. Parkes and Lawrence Lasker. It was filmed in late 1991 and released in 1992.
Martin Brice (Robert Redford), a hacker, has kept to his assumed name of Martin Bishop after narrowly avoiding capture for hacking US government computers in 1969, a fate that his friend Cosmo (Ben Kingsley) didn't escape. In the present, Martin runs a tiger team of "security specialists" that use unorthodox methods of testing physical and electronic security for companies in San Francisco: Donald Crease (Sidney Poitier), a former CIA agent and a high-strung family man; "Mother" (Dan Aykroyd), a conspiracy theorist with unsurpassed technical skills and dexterity; Carl Arbogast (River Phoenix), a young genius; and Erwin 'Whistler' Emory (David Strathairn), a blind man with superb hearing. One day, Martin is approached by two National Security Agency agents, Dick Gordon and Buddy Wallace (Timothy Busfield, Eddie...
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