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“Even weirder than you remember! With apologies to Johnny Mnemonic, Goldeneye and Hackers, no other 1995 movie captures the highs and lows of Web 1.0 cybersurfing quite as perfectly as THE NET. When Sandy logged on, so did we.” – Thrillist“Her driver’s license. Her credit cards. Her bank accounts. Her identity. DELETED. Escape is impossible when you’re caught in the net.” A gleefully cheesy techno‑thriller classic from the earliest days of internet paranoia, THE NET is both the most 1995 movie of all time and a weirdly prescient deep dive into some of the things that define our contemporary existence: identity theft, cyber-surveillance, annoying internet passwords, and DoorDash. Sandra Bullock plays an ordinary coder whose life is yanked into chaos when her identity is stolen, thrusting her down a rabbit hole of floppy-disk conspiracies and a parade of suspiciously helpful strangers. Featuring a deliciously twisty plot that serves up cyber thrills with a wink, THE NET is retro‑tech camp at its finest: gripping enough to keep you hooked but ridiculous enough to make you laugh out loud.
This screening is part of Arkadin’s May 2026 series, THE COMPUTER IS MY FRENEMY, featuring films that explore our collective love-hate relationship with the digital world. Does the internet truly bring us together or only tear us further apart? Find out this month!
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Arkadin Cinema & Bar, 5228 Gravois Ave, St Louis, MO 63116-2310, United States, Southhampton
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