THE NET (film)

THE NET. Irwin Winkler, dir., co-prod. USA: Columbia, 1995. Sandra Bullock, star.

Present-time techno-thriller in which a computer analyst's computer I.D. is mysteriously wiped out and replaced with an identity that keeps her in trouble. Part of her problem is that she knows few people "IRL": In Real Life; another part of her problem is a major conspiracy by cyber-Praetorians to gain power through unrestricted access to networked computers. Bullock's character has a speech to her court-appointed attorney explaining in detail how we all have computer I.D.s that can be manipulated.