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A 1995 movie about a small group of [[Playful Hacker|underground computer hackers]] who discover a scheme being run by the security chief of a large corporation. In a prologue flashback, lead character Dade Murphy, age eleven, is found guilty of crashing 1,507 computers. Fast forward seven years, where his mother has just moved both of them to New York. Dade, reluctantly at first, falls in with a new hacking crowd. One of the hackers breaks into a supercomputer where, in a [[Contrived Coincidence]], he downloads a virus/worm program that the aforementioned evil security chief is using to steal many millions of dollars. In response, the security chief tries to frame the hackers for both the theft and a planned environmental disaster. Thanks to assistance from hackers world-wide, our heroes manage to prevent the disaster, clear their names, and Dade gets the girl.
'''''Hackers''''' is known for referencing top-of-the-line computers of the time (now [[
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* [[Analog Punk]]: When it isn't indulging in flights of technological fancy, ''Hackers'' is very firmly anchored to the end of the Analog Punk era.
* [[Anti-Hero]]: Our heroes are, after all, guilty of numerous computer crimes, many victimless and harmless, others not so much. They're just not nearly as malicious as the bad guys.
* [[Big Damn Heroes]]: Razor and Blade get their moment, leading an army of hackers from around the world.
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** [[Blessed with Suck]]: Actually, what he says is "It hurts", and he seems to be being literal. When he spends a day skimming passwords from glancing at peoples' keyboards as they type, he literally gets a headache from trying to sift through all the data he's retaining.
* [[Cyberpunk Is Techno]]: The soundtrack (released over ''three volumes'') was pretty much a pantheon of 90's electronic music.
* [[Dueling Hackers]]: Part of the climax.
** Earlier, the duel between Crash and Burn.
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* [[Rapid-Fire Typing]]: every main character in the movie does this, but one particular scene is notable: when Dade uses Kate's new computer and the camera shows us that he's operating several [[Viewer-Friendly Interface]] programs at blinding speeds.
{{quote|'''Kate''': "I hope you don't screw like you type."}}
* [[Rule of Cool]]: Since a realistic movie about how hacking works would be agonizingly boring to everyone but hardcore hackers, the movie pretty much runs on this.
* [[Samus Is a Girl]]: For the first half of the film, neither Dade nor the audience know that Acid Burn is actually Kate Libby.
* [[Spell My Name with a "The"]]: He's "The Plague," not "Mister Plague." (At which point, Penn follows up with "Mister The Plague")
* [[Tech Marches On]]: 28.8 Kbps used to be fast. No more.
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* [[The Nineties]]
* [[Two-Person Pool Party]]: How Dade and Kate celebrate their victory.
* [[Wager Slave]]: Dade and Libby face off in a head-to-head hacking contest, with the loser ending up as the loser's slave or date respectively. Either way, they have to wear a dress.
* [[What Happened to the Mouse?]]: Phreak's last appearance was his phone call to Acid Burn, and he's never mentioned directly.
* [[Wrongful Accusation Insurance]]: {{spoiler|Although the heroes stopped the tankers from capsizing and exposed Plague's embezzlement scheme, they had to trash a supercomputer to do it. Apparently, the FBI didn't bother prosecuting them for that.}}
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