The Net

The Net

Her driver's license. Her credit cards. Her bank accounts. Her identity. DELETED.

1995114 min6.0 / 10

A paranoid thriller about digital erasure and surveillance, where a solitary programmer becomes hunted after stumbling onto a conspiracy, forced to survive without identity or trust.

Angela Bennett is a freelance computer systems analyst who tracks down software viruses. At night she hooks up to the internet and chats to others 'surfing the net'. While de-bugging a new high-tech game for a cyber friend, she comes across a top secret program and becomes the target of a mysterious organization who will stop at nothing to erase her identity and her existence, in order to protect the project.

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