The Net is a 1995 cyber thriller film directed by Irwin Winkler and featuring Sandra Bullock, Jeremy Northam and Dennis Miller. The film opens with United States Undersecretary of Defense Michael Bergstrom , who commits suicide after discovering that he has tested positive for HIV. Angela Bennett is a Venice, California systems analyst who telecommutes to Cathedral Software in San Francisco. Her interpersonal relationships are completely online and on the phone, limiting interactions with neighbors, and her mother who is institutionalized with Alzheimer's disease. Bennett's coworker Dale... sends her a floppy disk with a backdoor, labeled with "π", to a commonly used computer security system called "Gatekeeper" sold by Gregg Microsystems. Dale and Bennett agree to meet, but his private plane's navigation system malfunctions and it crashes. Bennett travels to Cozumel, Mexico on vacation, where she meets Jack Devlin . Devlin pays a mugger to steal Bennett's purse with the disk, then shoots the thief. He seduces Bennett on his speedboat, but she finds his gun and confronts him.
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| Release date: | July 28, 1995 |
| Directed by: | Irwin Winkler |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 114 Minutes |
| Producer: | Irwin Winkler, Rob Cowen, Rob Cowan |
| Editor: | Richard Halsey |
| Music by: | Mark Isham, Jeff Rona, Jeff Rona |
| Cinematography: | Jack N. Green |
| Screenplay by: | John Brancato, Michael Ferris |
| Estimated budget: | $22,000,000 |
| Genre: | Action, Thriller |