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5.1/10
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Two businessmen are hired to steal secrets from a rival, and decide to use a beautiful call girl to do so.Two businessmen are hired to steal secrets from a rival, and decide to use a beautiful call girl to do so.Two businessmen are hired to steal secrets from a rival, and decide to use a beautiful call girl to do so.
- Awards
- 2 wins & 2 nominations
Kimmy Suzuki
- Asian Girl #1
- (as Naoko 'Kimmy' Suzuki)
Phil Neilson
- The Welshman
- (as Phil Nielson)
Roberta Orlandi
- Sex Show Woman #2
- (as Roberta Orlan)
Ryuichi Sakamoto
- Hosaka Executive
- (as Ryûichi Sakamoto)
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- Writers
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Did you know
- TriviaPlans for an adaptation of William Gibson's short story were made as far back as 1989, with Kathryn Bigelow originally attached to direct.
- GoofsAfter Fox and X meet with Hosaka, they are talking while walking up to a restaurant. Fox's mouth does not match what he is saying at all. And when X responds, his mouth isn't even open.
- Quotes
[first lines]
Distinguished Man: Come on, you know this better than anybody, right? There's a full-scale subterranean war being waged for every shred of information. And the corporate suits are killing each other off by the thousands each year. I mean it's like the holocaust in the 20th century. Everybody knows about it, and nobody says anything about it. And government is as culpable as any corporation.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Cinéma, de notre temps: Abel Ferrara: Not Guilty (2003)
- SoundtracksApproaching the Portal
Written by Gene Newton
Performed by Gene Newton
Published by Bluestar Communications
Featured review
good if you like William Gibson or Abel Ferrara
I think this movie got a bum rap. I actually enjoyed it much more than that travesty Johnny Mnemonic (my apologies to Gibson, I know he liked it). Note to Hollywood, Ice-T does not go good with everything, and the deranged preacher bit has been overdone. But here I think Abel Ferrara really made a world in line with what I envisioned when reading the short story, any of Gibson's short stories. It's not a future where everything is blinking lights and super speed CGI, it's a future where most people live in the slums, and the rest have a clean, aerodynamic, one-button-for-everything lifestyle.
The premise, a couple of corporate "headhunters" trying to seduce a brilliant researcher away from a billion dollar multinational with a geisha type mole, is the kind of premise that Gibson is famous for. It's a single incident revolving around human emotions but having worldwide implications because the man is so brilliant he could change the course of science.
The acting is great of course: Willem Dafoe, Christopher Walken, and an early glimpse of Asia Argento. The story doesn't hit you over the head explaining events like most films, but Ferrara never does, and half the fun is suddenly realizing what's happened, the check mate, on your own.
If you want action, go see Johnny Mnemonic, if you want deep, see this film.
The premise, a couple of corporate "headhunters" trying to seduce a brilliant researcher away from a billion dollar multinational with a geisha type mole, is the kind of premise that Gibson is famous for. It's a single incident revolving around human emotions but having worldwide implications because the man is so brilliant he could change the course of science.
The acting is great of course: Willem Dafoe, Christopher Walken, and an early glimpse of Asia Argento. The story doesn't hit you over the head explaining events like most films, but Ferrara never does, and half the fun is suddenly realizing what's happened, the check mate, on your own.
If you want action, go see Johnny Mnemonic, if you want deep, see this film.
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $21,521
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $5,147
- Oct 3, 1999
- Gross worldwide
- $21,521
- Runtime1 hour 33 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1
- 1.85 : 1
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