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Synopsis: This movie is the fictional story of computer programming genius Milo Hoffman after graduating from Stanford and getting out into the competitive world of computer software. In his contemplation of where to begin his career, he is contacted by Gary Winston whose character is loosely based on Bill Gates. Winston is the CEO of a company called NURV, and they are on the brink of completing the global communication's system, Synapse. They need Hoffman to help them meet their launch date, so after much thought and with the full support of his girlfriend Alice, he accepts the job. Tragedy soon after strikes and Milo becomes suspicious of the company he has been wrapped up in. He learns that trusting anyone could be a mistake, and that nothing is as it seems.
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Director(s): Peter Howitt
Production: MGM/UA
  2 wins & 3 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.1
Metacritic:
31
Rotten Tomatoes:
24%
PG-13
Year:
2001
105 min
$10,965,209
Website
297 Views


A substantial amount of money, Gary.

No sale.

Can we buy into their stock? Or is that

a Justice Department problem too?

There is no stock, Randy.

I mean there's no company!

Gary Winston's office.

Can you hold, please?

Thanks for holding.

Yes, he is in a conference

right now. Can I take a message?

The cold, hard facts are

that anything is possible.

Anything, anything. You're just not

thinking creatively.

I have every confidence that you

can do that, Phil.

- It's a difficult one but we're

going to prevail.

- All right, all right.

Gary Winston's office.

Let me check that for you.

I'm sorry, I don't see anything new.

Milo?

Hi

It's not everyday we have genius

in the house.

- Want a soda pop or something?

- No, thanks.

Come on in.

Digital canvas.

The house knows the paintings I like,

knows my favorite music.

Same for anybody else

that's in the system.

There's a little sensor

that detects who's in the room.

Doesn't Bill Gates have

something like that?

Bill who? Heh.

No, no. His is primitive.

So I understand you're thinking of

doing a start up.

Yeah.

My friends and I have been planning

on doing a media delivery system

for a long time.

It would be open source, we'd...

offer it free for everybody,

just charge for tech support.

Wow, free.

This is a cut-throat business

we're in, Milo.

It's just a matter of time before

someone "borrows" your technology,

improves it and makes a

billion dollars on it.

What would you do with a

billion dollars, Milo?

I don't know.

I'll tell you what you could do.

You could take that money and

put it back into technology,

education and the arts.

You can transform culture.

I fund an opera company, symphony

orchestras, museums, theaters,

I have donated thousands of computers

to schools throughout the country.

The question really is,

how many of the people that you share

your discoveries with,

will be altruistic,

and how many will make fortunes

off of your generosity?

Come on in here.

Check this out.

- This is a SYNAPSE satellite.

- You bet.

I've got 240 of these up there.

The Mother satellite of each ring

passes over us

every night at 10 o'clock

to allow for station keeping,

re-programming, etc.

They in turn pass the data along

to the sister satellites in their ring.

- That's the coolest I've ever seen.

- I'm total wrapped up in this.

It's like I've got my own mission

control right here on my PC.

Activation codes,

IP addresses, flight path...

- It's the best train set ever, hum?

- You bet!

We've loaded a backdoor

to receive SYNAPSE transmissions

and all of our OS software

for the past 6 years.

We've developed compression

schemes and file formats that

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Howard Franklin

Howard Franklin is an American screenwriter and film director, known for such films as The Name of the Rose and Quick Change, his collaboration with Bill Murray. His other films include The Public Eye, about a 1940s tabloid photographer modeled on the photojournalist Weegee and starring Joe Pesci; Someone to Watch Over Me and The Man Who Knew Too Little. more…

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