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Swordfish
Rogue agent Gabriel Shear is determined to get his mitts on $9 billion stashed in a secret Drug Enforcement Administration account. He wants the cash to fight terrorism, but lacks the computer skills necessary to hack into the government mainframe. Enter Stanley Jobson, a n'er-do-well encryption expert who can log into anything.
2001 · Directed by Dominic Sena · 99 min · Action · Crime · Thriller · Screenplay in the scene database · 13 frames
Tagline
Log on. Hack in. Go anywhere. Steal everything.
Plot
Cyber-hacker Stanley Jobson becomes notorious for infecting the FBI's Carnivore program with a computer virus. Stanley's parole forbids him from accessing the internet and computers while his ex-wife, Melissa, an alcoholic and part-time porn star, issued a restraining order against him. This also prevents him from seeing his daughter, Holly.
Ginger Knowles persuades Stanley to work for Gabriel Shear, who forces him into cracking a secure Defense Department server. After the hack, Gabriel offers Stanley $10 million to program a multi-headed worm, a "hydra", to siphon $9.5 billion from the government slush funds.
Stanley begins work on the worm, learning that Gabriel leads Black Cell, a secret organization created by J. Edgar Hoover to attack terrorists that threaten the United States. He also privately discovers Ginger is a DEA agent working undercover and is further surprised to discover a corpse that resembles Gabriel.
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Crew
- Written by: Skip Woods
- Cinematography: Paul Cameron
- Edited by: Stephen E. Rivkin
- Music: Christopher Young, Paul Oakenfold
- Production design: Jeff Mann
- Produced by: Joel Silver, Jonathan D. Krane, Paul Winze
Cast
- John Travolta as Gabriel
- Hugh Jackman as Stanley
- Halle Berry as Ginger
- Don Cheadle as Roberts
- Vinnie Jones as Marco
- Sam Shepard as Senator Reisman
- Drea de Matteo as Melissa
- Rudolf Martin as Axl Torvalds
- Zach Grenier as A.D. Joy
- Camryn Grimes as Holly
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: German, English
- Studios: Village Roadshow Pictures, Silver Pictures, Jonathan Krane Group, NPV Entertainment
- Budget: $102,000,000
- Box office: $147,080,413
- Themes: hacker, hostage, secret agent, terrorism, bank robbery, ex-con, wire, misdirection, aftercreditsstinger
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