Sneakers (1992 film)
Sneakers is a 1992 caper film directed by Phil Alden Robinson, written by Robinson, Walter Parkes, and Lawrence Lasker and starring Robert Redford, Dan Aykroyd, Ben Kingsley, Mary McDonnell, River Phoenix, Sidney Poitier, and David Strathairn. The film marks the second collaboration between Phoenix and Poitier the first being Little Nikita in 1988.
In the present day, Martin, now called Martin Bishop, is running a tiger team of security specialists in San Francisco, including Donald Crease, a former CIA officer and family man Darren Mother Roskow, a conspiracy theorist and electronics technician Carl Arbogast, a young genius and Irwin Whistler Emery, a blind phone phreak.Martin is approached by National Security Agency officers Dick Gordon and Buddy Wallace, who know of his former identity. In exchange for clearing his record, hes asked to recover a black box from mathematician Dr. Gunter Janek, who has developed the box under the project name Setec Astronomy supposedly for the Russian government. Martin is hesitant but agrees to help. With help from his former girlfriend, Liz, Martin and his team secure the box which is disguised as a telephone answering machine. During their subsequent celebration party, Whistler, Mother, and Carl start to investigate the box, finding it capable of breaking the encryption of nearly every computer system. Martin works out that Setec Astronomy is an anagram of too many secrets, and issues a lockdown until they can deliver the box the next day. ........
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