The Net

The Net

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

Directed by Irwin Winkler

Produced by Columbia Pictures

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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  • Is The Net scary? Yes. More frightening than 82% of films.

  • Is The Net easy watching? Not especially. Less comforting than 74% of films.

  • Does The Net end with hope? Not especially. Less hopeful than 70% of films.

  • Is The Net violent? Somewhat. More violent than 68% of films.

  • Is The Net sad? About average. Almost exactly mid-range.

These describe how the film comes across, measured across the whole film and compared with other well-known films. They are not a content list — nothing here was counted or checked scene by scene, so for age-suitability or specific content use a classification board or a dedicated content-warning service.

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Rarity34

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Surprise27

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Love22

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Same territory, far fewer people have seen it.

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