"The Net (U.S. TV series) The Net is a 1998 television drama series based on the 1995 film of the same name. The series starred Brooke Langton as Angela Bennett, the character Sandra Bullock played in the film. Produced in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, the series originally aired for one season on the USA Network before being canceled in 1999. Computer expert Angela Bennett (Brooke Langton), accidentally receives a top secret email with information about an elite terrorist organization called the Praetorians. Angela soon discovers that the Praetorians' goal is to take control of people's lives through the use of"
"The Vanishing (1993 film) The Vanishing is a 1993 American psychological thriller film directed by George Sluizer, a remake of his 1988 French-Dutch film of the same name. The film stars Jeff Bridges, Kiefer Sutherland, Nancy Travis, and Sandra Bullock. Jeff Harriman (Kiefer Sutherland) goes on vacation with his girlfriend Diane Shaver (Sandra Bullock), who vanishes without a trace at a gas station. Three years later, Jeff, who is attempting to write a novel and joins the military, is still obsessed with finding out what happened. He meets a woman named Rita (Nancy Travis) who cracks a code using several"
"handed out its punch cards as souvenirs. They'd taught the massive machine do math that would've taken hours by hand. [...] But their work during the war was little known, unacknowledged or left out of official histories of the war and the development of computers.The film focuses on the contributions of several women, namely the Blumberg twins, Doris Polsky (née Blumberg) and Shirley Melvin (née Blumberg); Marlyn Meltzer (née Wescoff); and Jean Bartik (a.k.a. Billie Jean Jennings). Kathleen Antonelli (née McNulty) is another ENIAC computer programmer recognized in the film. It has been taught widely in schools and universities and"
"2015, Bullock voiced the supervillain Scarlet Overkill in the animated film ""Minions"". As of March 2017, ""Minions"" is her highest-grossing film, with a worldwide box office total of over $1.1 billion. Sandra Bullock filmography Sandra Bullock is an American actress, writer, director, and film producer who made her film debut with a minor role in J. Christian Ingvordsen's thriller ""Hangmen"" in 1987. She made her television debut in the television film ""Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman"" (1989) and played the lead role in the short-lived sitcom ""Working Girl"" (1990) before making her breakthrough starring"
"gas canisters and entered the house, where they found Corbett had committed suicide. Corbett's death was the result of ""multiple incised wounds"" according to the Los Angeles County coroner. Sandra Bullock Sandra Annette Bullock (; born July 26, 1964) is an American actress, producer, and philanthropist. After making her acting debut with a minor role in the thriller ""Hangmen"" (1987), she received early attention for her performance in the sci-fi action film ""Demolition Man"" (1993). Her breakthrough came in the action thriller ""Speed"" (1994). A line of successful films followed throughout the 1990s, including ""While You Were Sleeping"" (1995), ""The"
"Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman (often simply Bionic Showdown) is a made-for-television science fiction action film which originally aired on April 30, 1989 on NBC. The movie reunited the main casts of the television series ""The Six Million Dollar Man"" and its spin-off ""The Bionic Woman"". It is notably the first television appearance of actress Sandra Bullock and the first film which strongly featured her. In the movie, a diplomatic crisis threatens world peace after an unknown bionic individual steals top secret information."
"Sandra Bullock filmography Sandra Bullock is an American actress, writer, director, and film producer who made her film debut with a minor role in J. Christian Ingvordsen's thriller ""Hangmen"" in 1987. She made her television debut in the television film ""Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman"" (1989) and played the lead role in the short-lived sitcom ""Working Girl"" (1990) before making her breakthrough starring in Jan de Bont's action film ""Speed"" (1994). In 1995, Bullock founded her own production company, Fortis Films, and starred in the romantic comedy ""While You Were Sleeping"". Her performance in"
"Vanished (1995 film) Vanished is a 1995 thriller mystery movie made for TV based on the novel by Danielle Steel. It stars George Hamilton, Robert Hays and Lisa Rinna. Marielle is happily married to Charles Delauney, and they have a four-year-old son together, Andre. After being visited by Marielle's parents, who warn her about Charles, Marielle, Charles and Andre go on holiday in Switzerland. While Marielle is being greeted by a neighbor, Andre tries to get his ball from the lake and ends up drowning. Charles blames Marielle, and she ends up having a nervous breakdown. Two years later, Charles"
"was the first true representation of what is the modern computer. Ada Lovelace (Augusta Ada Byron) is credited as the pioneer of computer programming and is regarded as a mathematical genius, a result of the mathematically heavy tutoring regimen her mother assigned to her as a young girl. Lovelace began working with Charles Babbage as an assistant while Babbage was working on his “Analytical Engine”, the first mechanical computer. During her work with Babbage, Ada Lovelace became the designer of the first computer algorithm, which had the ability to compute Bernoulli numbers. Moreover, Lovelace’s work with Babbage resulted in her"
"Hackers (film) Hackers is a 1995 American crime film directed by Iain Softley and starring Jonny Lee Miller, Angelina Jolie, Renoly Santiago, Laurence Mason, Matthew Lillard, Jesse Bradford, Lorraine Bracco, and Fisher Stevens. The film follows a group of high school hackers and their involvement in a corporate extortion conspiracy. Made in the 1990s when the Internet was unfamiliar to the general public, it reflects the ideals laid out in the Hacker Manifesto quoted in the film: ""This is our world now... the world of the electron and the switch [...] We exist without skin color, without nationality, without religious"
"Bullock also played Harper Lee in ""Infamous"", a drama based on George Plimpton's 1997 book, ""Truman Capote: In Which Various Friends, Enemies, Acquaintances, and Detractors Recall His Turbulent Career"". Bullock headlined the supernatural thriller ""Premonition"" (2007), with Julian McMahon, as a housewife who experiences the days surrounding her husband's death in a non-chronological order. Despite negative reviews, several critics, including Rex Reed, commended Sandra Bullock for her performance, and the film grossed US$84.1 million around the globe. In 2008, Bullock was announced as ""the face"" of the cosmetic brand Artistry. The year 2009 proved to be especially good for Bullock,"
"Clueless (film) Clueless is a 1995 American coming-of-age romantic comedy film written and directed by Amy Heckerling. It stars Alicia Silverstone, Stacey Dash, Paul Rudd and Brittany Murphy, and was produced by Scott Rudin and Robert Lawrence. It is loosely based on Jane Austen's 1815 novel ""Emma"", updating the setting to modern-day Beverly Hills. The film's director, Heckerling, studied real Beverly Hills high school students to get the lingo and feel for how real teens in the 1980s talked. The famous quote ""as if!"" came from Heckerling's study of these teens. The film grossed $56.1 million in the United States,"
"The films are all about loss and technology. Ada Lovelace invented computer language, but was never credited and was basically erased from history. Teknolust is about artificial intelligence clones: the bots that escape into reality and interact with human life, in effect a symbiosis between technological life and human life, and how the two can marry. Strange Culture again was about misidentity, where the media created a fictional character that they blame this crime on, rather than the actual person. All of these works are about erasure of identity and how technology adds to it and creates it. And how"
"a genetically enhanced nine-year-old female supersoldier designated as X5-452 (Geneva Locke) escapes along with eleven others from a secret U.S. government institution codenamed Manticore where they were born, raised, and trained to be soldiers and assassins. On June 1, 2009, months after X5-452's escape, terrorists detonate an electromagnetic pulse weapon in the atmosphere over the U.S. which destroys the vast majority of computer and communication systems, throwing the country into chaos. Ten years later in 2019, the now 19-year-old X5-452 (Jessica Alba), who calls herself Max Guevara, struggles to search for her Manticore brothers and sisters. In a recovering United"
"in a bit of a bad movie way due to the over the top performances and a variety of forced scenes."" Nevertheless, he recommended it to fans of Brian Dennehy. Shadow of a Doubt (1995 film) Shadow of a Doubt is a 1995 American TV movie that was written and directed by its star Brian Dennehy. It was based on a novel by William J. Coughlin. The movie aired in the United States on December 3, 1995. Teenage temptress Angel Harwell (Balk) is accused of murdering her father, and Charley Sloan (Dennehy), an alcoholic defense attorney and former lover of"
"Practical Magic Practical Magic is a 1998 American romantic comedy film based on the 1995 novel of the same name by Alice Hoffman. The film was directed by Griffin Dunne and stars Sandra Bullock, Nicole Kidman, Stockard Channing, Dianne Wiest, Aidan Quinn, and Goran Visnjic. Bullock and Kidman play sisters Sally and Gillian Owens, who have always known they were different from other people. Raised by their aunts after their parents' death, the sisters grew up in a household that was anything but typical—their aunts fed them chocolate cake for breakfast and taught them the uses of practical magic. But"
"onto DVD in 2004. The film is only available in fullscreen (as it was made-for-television and aired on HBO), although widescreen versions have been made available on DVD in the United Kingdom and Australia. Wedlock (film) Wedlock (originally known as Deadlock) is a 1991 American science fiction-action television film from HBO Pictures, directed by Lewis Teague and starring Rutger Hauer, Mimi Rogers, Joan Chen and James Remar. It received an Emmy Nomination for Sound Editing. After stealing diamonds in a robbery, diamond thief Frank Warren is betrayed by his best friend Sam and his fiancée Noelle, who turns him into"
"tremendous success, grossing a total of $182,057,016 worldwide against an estimated $17,000,000 budget. It made $9,288,915 on its opening weekend of April 21–23, 1995. It was the thirteenth-highest grosser of 1995 in the United States. The film is recognized by American Film Institute in 2002 with a nomination for the list AFI's 100 Years...100 Passions. While You Were Sleeping (film) While You Were Sleeping is a 1995 American romantic comedy film directed by Jon Turteltaub and written by Daniel G. Sullivan and Fredric Lebow. It stars Sandra Bullock as Lucy, a Chicago Transit Authority token collector, and Bill Pullman as"
"Amazon"" (1993), before rosing to early prominence with her supporting role in the sci-fi action film ""Demolition Man"" (1993). Bullock's big breakthrough came in 1994, when she starred in the action thriller ""Speed"", with Keanu Reeves, as one of the passengers of a city bus containing a bomb. She came to read for ""Speed"" with Reeves to make sure there was the right chemistry between the two actors. She recalls that they had to do ""all these really physical scenes together, rolling around on the floor and stuff."" ""Speed"" garnered acclaim from critics who, according to Rotten Tomatoes, asserted it"
"Elisa Donovan Elisa Donovan (born Lisa Adaline Donovan; February 3, 1971) is an American actress, writer, and producer. She is most recognized as the character Amber from the 1995 film ""Clueless"", in which she starred opposite Alicia Silverstone. She would reprise the role for the 1996-99 TV series of the same name, with Rachel Blanchard taking over Silverstone's role. She also starred in six films in the acclaimed ""The Dog Who Saved"" saga. Elisa was born Lisa Adaline Donovan in Poughkeepsie, New York, the daughter of Charlotte and Jack Donovan, who was a business executive. She later changed her first"
"""she remembered everything"" after she recovered from her concussion) and she tries to reconcile her feelings for Steve while at the same time helping train Steve's son Michael in the use of his own recently acquired updated bionics. Jaime challenges Michael to a friendly race. He overtakes her and she makes the comment that she feels like an ""obsolete model"". Michael is kidnapped by Fortress. Steve and Jaime along with the Air Force infiltrate the abandoned glass factory to ""rescue"" Michael. The second film, """", (1989) introduced Sandra Bullock as paraplegic Kate Mason who becomes a next-generation bionic woman and"
"he'd done some really interesting stuff with a laptop and payphones and that cracked it for me, because it made it cinematic"". The character Eugene Belford uses Babbage as a pseudonym at the end of the film, a reference to Charles Babbage, an inventor of an early form of the computer. The fictional computer mainframe named the ""Gibson"" is a homage to cyberpunk author William Gibson and originator of the term ""Cyberspace"", first in his 1982 short story Burning Chrome and later in his 1984 book Neuromancer. The cast spent three weeks getting to know each other and learning how"
"Shadow of a Doubt (1995 film) Shadow of a Doubt is a 1995 American TV movie that was written and directed by its star Brian Dennehy. It was based on a novel by William J. Coughlin. The movie aired in the United States on December 3, 1995. Teenage temptress Angel Harwell (Balk) is accused of murdering her father, and Charley Sloan (Dennehy), an alcoholic defense attorney and former lover of her step-mother (Bedelia), comes to rescue. Andy Webb of ""The Movie Scene"" awarded the film 3 out of 5 stars, saying that ""Shadow of a Doubt"" ""ends up entertaining but"
"Ghost in the Machine (film) Ghost in the Machine (also known as Deadly Terror) is a 1993 American science fiction-horror film directed by Rachel Talalay and released by 20th Century Fox. A serial killer named Karl Hochman (Ted Marcoux) is known as ""The Address Book Killer"" due to his habit of stealing address books and choosing his victims from them. While he is working at a computer store, he obtains Terry Munroe's (Karen Allen) address book after another employee, who is demonstrating a scanner, copies a page of her address book into the computer. On a rainy night while heading"
"Strange Days (film) Strange Days is a 1995 American science fiction thriller film directed by Kathryn Bigelow, written by James Cameron and Jay Cocks, and produced by Cameron and Steven-Charles Jaffe. It stars Ralph Fiennes, Angela Bassett, Juliette Lewis, and Tom Sizemore. Set in the last two days of 1999, the film follows the story of a black marketeer of SQUID discs, recordings that allow a user to experience the recorder's memories and physical sensations, as he attempts to uncover the truth behind the murder of a prostitute. Blending science fiction with film noir conventions, ""Strange Days"" explores themes such"
"some unknown software to see what it does. He is directed to use the software to infiltrate a black ICE database which nearly ends up killing him. The acronym ICE is shorthand for ""Intrusion Countermeasures Electronics"". The most formidable of these data defense networks are powerful enough to trace back and kill any hacker making an attempt to defeat them. This is legally sanctioned or is, at least, not illegal. But at the last moment Bobby is rescued, while in Cyberspace and dying, by an image of a girl, Angela Mitchell, who is somehow able to enter cyberspace without using"
"opposite James Brolin. Later that year, she played the lead role in the made-for-television movie, ""Eye of the Stalker"". In 1996, Langton joined the cast of the Fox prime time soap opera, ""Melrose Place"", playing Samantha Reilly Campbell. She starred in the show during its fifth and sixth season, leaving early in the seventh season. After leaving ""Melrose Place"", Langton was cast as lead in the USA Network series, ""The Net"", a television drama based on the 1995 film of the same name. Langton portrayed the character Angela Bennett, who was played by Sandra Bullock in the film. The series"
"computer on Earth can decipher it. Originally it was created during the Reagan Administration as a test to keep the United States' highest priority secrets under wraps. One day, the NSA receives a message from a nine-year-old autistic savant with prodigious math abilities named Simon Lynch (Miko Hughes), who calls a telephone number written in the code which was secretly published in a puzzle magazine by two of the creators, Dean Crandell (Robert Stanton) and Leo Pedranski (Bodhi Elfman), to see if anyone could break it. Crandell and Pedranski's division chief, Lt. Colonel Nicholas Kudrow (Alec Baldwin) sees the boy's"
"When the Party's Over When the Party's Over is a 1993 film starring Sandra Bullock. The film was directed by Matthew Irmas and was first released on March 12, 1993. Frankie (Elizabeth Berridge), Amanda (Sandra Bullock), MJ (Rae Dawn Chong, and Banks (Kris Kamm) are housemates, who are fresh out of college. Frankie is a social worker, who is dating Taylor, a lawyer (Brian McNamara). Amanda, an artist, meets and falls in love with Alexander Midnight, a performance artist (Fisher Stevens). She is also trying to guide her younger brother, Willie (Michael Landes), with wisdom, patience, and compassion, after the"
"Sentinel 2099 Sentinel 2099 is a 1995 American apocalyptic science fiction film directed by Michael McGee. The cast includes Sam Bishop, Chris Carlson, Daniel Duff, Todd huffman, Leon Jester, Michael Mansfield, and Jodie Whitley. Director: Michael McGee. Starring: Sam Bishop, Chris Carlson, Daniel Duff, Todd Huffman, Leon Jester, Michael Mansfield, Judie Whitley. Released: 1995. Runtime: 75 minutes. Language: English. Country: United States. In the post apocalyptic world of the 21st century the Unified Commonwealth struggles to restore civilization to the survivors of the Great Plague. A constant state of war exists as the female dominated army of the Commonwealth must"
"Two If by Sea Two If by Sea (also known in the United Kingdom as Stolen Hearts) is a 1996 American romantic comedy film directed by Bill Bennett, and starring Sandra Bullock and Denis Leary. The screenplay, written by Leary and Mike Armstrong, is based on a story by Leary, Armstrong, and Ann Lembeck. Petty thief Frank O'Brien steals a $4 million masterpiece painting. His cashier girlfriend of seven years, Roz, befriends the potential buyer of the painting, Evan Marsh, on an island. After being captured by FBI Agent O'Malley at the fish factory, she discovers Marsh is actually an"
"to show amnesia as a result of head injury from accidents or attacks. The loss of identity and autobiographical memory shown in ""Santa Who?"" (2000) in which Santa suffers from amnesia that destroys his identity and memory of himself is very unlikely in the real world. This is also portrayed in ""The Bourne Identity"" (2002) and ""The Bourne Supremacy"" (2004) where the main character forgets he is a trained assassin. Another misrepresentation of the reality of memory loss in the movies can be seen in Clean Slate (1994) and 50 First Dates (2004) where the characters are able to encode"
"Who Shot Patakango? Who Shot Patakango?, a.k.a. Who Shot Pat? is a 1989 movie starring Sandra Bullock. The film is set in Brooklyn, New York and focuses on the coming of age of a group of high school teens in the late 1950s. Bic Bickham (played by actor David Edwin Knight), a student at a vocational high school in Brooklyn falls in love with Devlin Moran (played by Sandra Bullock), a private school student from a wealthy family. The movie highlights the tough streets of New York City in the 1950s and the final realization that a gang is nothing"