Hackers is a 1995 American
teen crime techno-thriller film directed by
Iain Softley and starring
Jonny Lee Miller,
Angelina Jolie,
Renoly Santiago,
Matthew Lillard,
Jesse Bradford,
Lorraine Bracco,
Fisher Stevens and Jay Winters. The film follows the exploits of a group of gifted high school
hackers and their involvement in a corporate extortion conspiracy. Made in the 1990s when the
internet was unfamiliar to the general public, it reflects the ideals laid out in the
Hacker Manifesto quoted in the film, "This is our world now... the world of the electron and the switch [...] We exist without skin color, without nationality, without religious bias... and you call us criminals. [...] Yes, I am a criminal. My crime is that of curiosity."
Hackers has achieved
cult classic status.