Computer nerd's wet dream. In it, he's a pint-sized pretty boy (Ryan Phillippe) with golden curls, a permanent pout, a beautiful blond girlfriend and a beautiful brunette colleague -- take your pick. He has been recruited right out of college by Portland's counterpart to Bill Gates ("Bill who?"), a mop-haired, bespectacled, boyish, jeans-wearing, Pringles-munching software magnate, whose monopolistic practices extend, quite literal-mindedly, to the outright murder of his competitors (the dream darkens). A conscience stirs; a duel of wits and keyboards ensues; and a grinning freeze-frame concludes. Peter Howitt, director of the offbeat Sliding Doors, here demonstrates he can do work as lifeless and sterile as that of any mainstream hack. Tim Robbins, Claire Forlani, Rachael Leigh Cook. (2001) — Duncan Shepherd
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