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[[File:setecastronomy.jpg|frame|[[Significant Anagram|Setec Astronomy?]] ''Too Many Secrets'']]
A 1992 film starring Robert Redford and an [[All-Star Cast]]. '''''Sneakers''''' is a complex thriller about a team of slightly shady security experts who find themselves in a conspiracy about cryptography, espionage, secrets, and betrayal.
Martin Brice ([[Robert Redford]]) and his best friend Cosmo ([[Ben Kingsley]]) spent their youth hacking into computer systems and 'sharing the wealth': ten thousand dollars here, thirty there, and all sent to various freedom-loving (and somewhat anarchistic) agencies. Despite their precautions, the Feds catch onto Martin and Cosmo; Cosmo is arrested and goes to prison, while Martin
Twenty-three years later, Martin Bishop is the team lead for the Sneakers, a team of security analysts who expose the weaknesses in the security systems of banks, corporations, and anybody else who'll cut them a cheque. This ''very''
* Irwin "Whistler" Emery ([[David Strathairn]]), a blind soundman with perfect pitch.
* Darryl "Mother" Roskow ([[Dan Aykroyd]]), a conspiracy nut and phone phreaker ''par excellance''.
* Donald Crease ([[Sidney Poitier]]), ex-CIA, terminated because of his quick temper.
* Karl Arborgast ([[River Phoenix]]), a college delinquent and gadget-master.
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* [[Janitor Impersonation Infiltration]]: Karl dresses as a gardener to get inside the Playtronics building by pretending to need to use their bathroom.
* [[Just Like Robin Hood]]
* [[Kwyjibo]]: Martin attempts to play "scrunchy".▼
** [[Hilarious in Hindsight]]: It's listed as a legal word in the Official Scrabble Dictionary now (definition: an elastic hair tie).▼
* [[Lie Detector]]: Mother's voice stress analyzer.
* [[Mission Control]]: Martin and Carl tend to go in the field, while Crease, Whistler, and Mother play peanut gallery.
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* [[Red Herring]]: And yes, {{spoiler|[[Incredibly Lame Pun|Communism]]}} is one of them.
* [[Rewind, Replay, Repeat]]: The protagonists repeatedly watch a videotape of Janek in his office, with a woman who's in the room saying "I leave message here on service, but you do not call," each time. Finally one of the group realizes that since Janek uses a phone message service, he doesn't need an answering machine, so the answering machine on his desk must be something else - the Little Black Box.
▲** [[Hilarious in Hindsight]]: It's listed as a legal word in the Official Scrabble Dictionary now (definition: an elastic hair tie).
* [[Shout-Out]]:
** While picking through Brandes' trash, Mother holds up a folded box of "Cap'n Crunch", as a tribute to famed phone phreaker John "Captain Crunch" Draper. Another reference appears during the Scrabble game, when the word "CRUNCH" appears before it gets turned into "SCRUNCHY".
** When Whistler says that he wishes for "peace on earth, good will toward men...
* [[Shown Their Work]]: Lots, but the most notable was having Professor Len Adleman -- one of the three mathematicians who invented the RSA cryptosystem (he's the "A")-- as a mathematical consultant on the film.
* [[Significant Anagram]]: Setec Astronomy
* [[Social Engineering]]: Many varieties.
* [[Stolen MacGuffin Reveal]]
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* [[Technical Pacifist]]: Cosmo
* [[Television Geography]]: Averted. Most of the geography shown is quite accurate and reasonable. In particular the scene where they trace where Martin was taken can be logically followed to a location in the East Bay.
* [[Utopia Justifies the Means]]:
* [[Vanity License Plate]]: 180 IQ. Belonging to Werner Brandes.
* [[Viewer-Friendly Interface]]: When they hack into the U.S. Air Traffic Control System, it immediately displays a radar map with points representing airplanes moving around on it. There's no main menu. They get a map right away, so that you can see what they just hacked into.
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