Sneakers [HD DVD]

Sneakers [HD DVD]
by Phil Alden Robinson

List Price: ~~$19.98~~
Category: DVD
See more DVD releases

Compare Prices for Sneakers [HD DVD]

(Click here)

Buy this DVD movie at online store in your country
Canada

DVD Cover Information

Actor: David Strathairn, Gary Hershberger, Jo Marr, Robert Redford, Sidney Poitier
Director: Phil Alden Robinson
Brand: Universal
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); French (Dubbed)
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 126 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-06-12
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Universal Studios

Movie Reviews of Sneakers [HD DVD]

Movie Review: The Hot Rock meets Hackers
Summary: 5 Stars

From the writers who brought you WarGames. It also reminds me of the Redford film from the 70s, The Hot Rock. Both that and Sneakers are enjoyable, intelligent caper films the whole family can watch. Nice jazzy score, too.

FYI, my version (the 2003 disc) includes a commentary track by the writers and director.

Write your own review

More Sneakers [HD DVD] reviews:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

Summary of Sneakers [HD DVD]

Robert Redford leads an all-star cast in one of the most satisfying suspense films! Computer expert Martin Bishop (Redford) heads a team of renegade hackers - including a former CIA employee (Sidney Poitier), a gadgets wizard (Dan Aykroyd), a young genius (River Phoenix) and a blind soundman (David Strathairn) - who are routinely hired to test security systems. But Bishop's past comes back to haunt him when government agents blackmail the "sneakers" into carrying out a covert operation: tracking down an elusive black box. Along with his former girlfriend (Mary McDonnell), Bishop's team retrieves the box and makes a stunning discovery - the device can break into any computer system in the world. With factions from all sides willing to kill for the powerful box, Bishop and his team embark on their most dangerous assignment ever in this exhilarating high-tech caper from Phil Alden Robinson (Field of Dreams).

This enjoyable thriller, written and directed by Phil Alden Robinson (the screenwriter of Field of Dreams), follows a raggedy group of corporate security experts who get in over their heads when they accept an assignment poaching some hot hardware for the National Security Agency. Robert Redford plays the group's guru, an aging techno-anarchist who has been hiding from the feds since the early 1970s; his companionable gang of freaks includes Dan Aykroyd, David Strathairn, Mary McDonnell, the late River Phoenix, and Sidney Poitier, as a veteran CIA operative turned "sneaker." The technological black box that everybody is after, an array of computer chips that can decode any encrypted message, isn't a very plausible invention, but it's a serviceable McGuffin, and the megalomania of the master plotter played by Ben Kingsley has more resonance than most. Modest inferences can be drawn about the very latest high-tech threats to civil liberties. --David Chute

Action & Adventure DVD Video

DVD Video

Movies most talked about in Stealing, Thieving, Grifting, Con, Cat ....Stuff

The Sting
Universal Studios; Release date: 1998-03-31; DVD
Best price: $8.89
Price in other shops: ~~$9.99~~

Ocean's Eleven [Blu-ray]
WARNER HOME VIDEO; Release date: 2008-04-29; DVD
Best price: $9.49
Price in other shops: ~~$28.99~~

Entrapment
TCFHE; Release date: 2002-05-21; DVD
Best price: $6.25
Price in other shops: ~~$14.98~~

How to Steal a Million
TCFHE; Release date: 2004-12-07; DVD
Best price: $8.00
Price in other shops: ~~$14.98~~

The Grifters
by Jim Thompson
Vintage; Published: 1990-10-03; Paperback; Book
Best price: $7.58
Price in other shops: ~~$12.95~~

King Con: A Novel
by Stephen J. Cannell
Avon; Published: 1998-06-01; Mass Market Paperback; Book
Best price: $2.99
Price in other shops: ~~$7.99~~

The Great Train Robbery
by Michael Crichton
Harper; Published: 2008-11-01; Mass Market Paperback; Book
Best price: $5.94
Price in other shops: ~~$9.99~~

GoodFellas (Two-Disc Special Edition)
WEA; Release date: 2004-08-17; DVD
Best price: $15.99
Price in other shops: ~~$26.98~~

Sneakers [HD DVD]
Universal; Release date: 2007-06-12; DVD
Best price: $0.74
Price in other shops: ~~$19.98~~

The Great Escape
by Paul Brickhill
W.W. Norton & Co.; Published: 2004-08; Paperback; Book
Best price: $7.89
Price in other shops: ~~$13.95~~

Similar DVD Movies

Born on the Fourth of July [HD DVD]
Universal; Release date: 2007-06-12; DVD
Best price: $0.35
Price in other shops: ~~$19.98~~

Three Days of the Condor
REDFORD,ROBERT; Release date: 1999-08-17; DVD
Best price: $4.88
Price in other shops: ~~$9.98~~

Mercury Rising [HD DVD]
WILLIS,BRUCE; Release date: 2007-08-14; DVD
Best price: $0.56
Price in other shops: ~~$19.98~~

Daylight [HD DVD]
UNIVERSAL STUDIOS HOME ENTERTAIN.; Release date: 2007-06-12; DVD
Best price: $0.01
Price in other shops: ~~$19.98~~

Hackers
TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT; Release date: 1998-08-25; DVD
Best price: $8.68
Price in other shops: ~~$14.98~~

Out of Sight [HD DVD]
Release date: 2006-10-24; DVD
Best price: $1.78
Price in other shops: ~~$19.98~~

Bulletproof [HD DVD]
Release date: 2007-06-26; DVD
Best price: $0.35
Price in other shops: ~~$19.98~~

Midnight Run [HD DVD]
DE NIRO,ROBERT; Release date: 2007-05-29; DVD
Best price: $1.49
Price in other shops: ~~$19.98~~

The Game [HD DVD]
Universal Pictures; Release date: 2007-04-17; DVD
Best price: $1.99
Price in other shops: ~~$19.98~~

Spy Game [HD DVD]
Release date: 2006-08-22; DVD
Best price: $1.69
Price in other shops: ~~$19.98~~