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Identity Thief
Film
FilmPG-131995
The Net
Directed by Irwin Winkler
Angela Bennett is a freelance computer systems analyst who tracks down software viruses. At night, she hooks up to the internet and chats to others 'surfing the net'. While de-bugging a new high-tech game for a cyber friend, she comes across a top secret program and becomes the target of a mysterious organization, who will stop at nothing to erase her identity and her existence in order to protect the project. From TMDB
154 reactions from 3 sources (Bluesky, Mastodon, TMDB reviews) · newest Oct 24, 2026 · last updated Oct 24, 2026 · How this works
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The Net is a 1995 crime drama mystery film, directed by Irwin Winkler, starring Sandra Bullock, Jeremy Northam and Dennis Miller.
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60 of 154 · most liked firstRemember the movie called "The Net" starring Sandra Bullock? Watch it, because now all private American citizens are now victims of ID theft and for the 1st time in history its America's own president involved in the crime.
positive · AI labelView post →The TikTok ban has people talking about how rogue actors might use the powers of the World Wide Web to inflict harm on people’s everyday lives, but we were warned about these dangers way back in 1995 by a prophetic film that starred Sandra Bullock and Dennis Miller called The Net.
neutral · AI labelView post →The Net (Film: 1995 / DVD: 2002)
neutral · AI labelView post →Also 1995: Casino, 12 Monkeys, Rob Roy, Dead Presidents, Things To Do In Denver, Virtuosity, a Joel Schumacher Batman, Outbreak, The Net! We got so many movies. So many. WATERWORLD for God's sake. That's such a fucking movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →I realized that my grandmother’s mental capacities were deteriorating when a week after we watched the Sandra Bullock movie THE NET, she told me that it happened to someone she knew and I shouldn’t go on AOL. Didn’t mean we loved her any less, just that I wouldn’t have put her in charge of nukes.
neutral · AI labelView post →One of the most insane drink orders in film or tv is the scene in The Net where Sandra Bullock is lounging in the sun on the beach in Mexico and orders a Gibson Martini
neutral · AI labelView post →Yeah like I'm Gen X, I was brought up during the movie Hackers with Zero Cool and The Net with Sandra Bullock... Just do it! Take them down.
neutral · AI labelView post →Apparently she did not watch her own movie, The Net, where they erased her identity.
neutral · AI labelView post →Without saying The Net, fav Sandra Bullock Film?
neutral · AI labelView post →Movie idea: A gritty reboot of the 1995 thriller The Net with Timothee Chalamet as Cyberbob and Anya Taylor Joy but it’s an origin story about Pizza.Net. 3 hours long, plus an interactive element with the audience (seats vibrate when pizza is on the screen)
neutral · AI labelView post →Movie Of The Day... The Net (1995)
neutral · AI labelView post →Hey don't knock The Net, it singlehandedly killed Dennis Miller's potential movie career, we should be grateful.
positive · AI labelView post →Every time I use BlueSky I feel like Sandra Bullock in The Net in the sense that I don’t really remember what happened in that movie but like, it’s the internet?
neutral · AI labelView post →One of the first ARG-style promotional games, for the movie The Net (1995). As a member of the antagonist Praetorians, use your mastery of laptops, floppies, pagers, email, and fax to track the heroine - but don't get caught! Win and you could win a REAL trip to the Krystal Ixtapa resort!
neutral · AI labelView post →Snagged a DVD copy of one of my favorite flicks the other day. Physical media ftw 💥 #90s #PhysicalMedia #DVD #TheNet
positive · AI labelView post →“you’re so funny” thanks one time in English AP I compared Brothers Karamazov to the 90’s Sandra Bullock movie “The Net” and it became a running bit in class the entire year
neutral · AI labelView post →I had no idea Pizza.net was a real thing back in the day. I love that @paxholley.com went the extra mile to look up the original site on Archive.org for the latest @ireadmovies.com podcast on the movie novelization of THE NET (1995). This is the kind of hard-nosed fact-checking I appreciate.
neutral · AI labelView post →When the studio pays to clear the LA freeways you can do 55 in a city bus like Sandra in Speed. What you never will be able to do that Sandra Bullock did in the cyberattack movie "The Net" is run from Aquatic Park/Ft Mason & make one quick turn at end up at Moscone Convention Center in SF.
neutral · AI labelView post →wow! and a sneak preview of their first film just hit the Net ! !
neutral · AI labelView post →The Net is such an old movie that the plot of the movie required the FedExing of floppy disks.
neutral · AI labelView post →Three Hollywood movies were released in 1995 with internet themes: Johnny Mnemonic, The Net, and Hackers. In this post I also look back at William Gibson's now extinct mid-90s website & the equally lost to time Johnny Mnemonic net.hunt. cybercultural.com/p/cyberspace... #InternetHistory #90smovies
neutral · AI labelView post →In 1995, Sandra Bullock became the first person in history to buy movie tickets online. She did so to promote her film "The Net." Original post
neutral · AI labelView post →“Your mother and I watched a compelling film called ‘The Net,’ starring the girl from the bus.” - Frank Costanza
neutral · AI labelView post →cyberpunk movie from 1995 you've watched more than six times hard mode: no Hackers, Johnny Mnemonic, The Net, Virtuosity, Judge Dredd, Strange Days, OR Ghost in the Shell
neutral · AI labelView post →That was indeed a Sonic Movie 🔥🖤💙💛❤️ And there was even an Eggman & Agent Stone cosplay duo at my screening AAAAAAAHHHHHH (sadly didn’t get their socials but if you’re anywhere on the Net then HIIIIIII 👋) #SonicMovie3
neutral · AI labelView post →LISTEN. I was there when to promote “The Net” Sandra Bullock sat down at a big boxy “home computer” and used it to purchase the first ever online movie tickets using “the net,” which is what we called at the time. It took me forever to learn to buy things using a computer and it’s as far as I can go
neutral · AI labelView post →We watched The Net and that movie could've been so much better with some editing. There were multiple times where I'd be thinking how bad the movie was while simultaneously being fully invested in Sandra Bullock's survival. She carried the hell out of that movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →reminded me of an amazing seinfeld line in an episode i watched recently. frank goes, “i was watching a provocative film. it was called The Net with that girl from the bus."
neutral · AI labelView post →31 years ago, Sandra Bullock made history by becoming the first person to buy a movie ticket online. The moment came while promoting her underrated cyber-thriller ‘THE NET’. #TheNet #SandraBullock
neutral · AI labelView post →*watching THE NET* omg I wish you could actually order a pizza online, just imagine also these pages are loading way too fast, are these jokers serious. Takes you right out of the movie
negative · AI labelView post →We are now farther from when I reviewed the tech in The Net in 2009 than that review was from the movie itself.
neutral · AI labelView post →He played Mr. Knightly in Emma, not Mr. Darcy, but yes, he was also wonderful and I saw that Sandra Bullock movie The Net way too many times just because he was in it.
positive · AI labelView post →My #LastFourWatched films: Play Dirty (2025) The Net (1995) One Battle After Another (2025) The Muppets Take Manhattan 1984) #filmsky #letterboxd #LetterboxdFriday
neutral · AI labelView post →You know, one day I'm going to host a movie night and we're going to watch Hackers, Sneakers, and The Net and revel in when we thought the internet was really really cool. My voice is my passport; verify me #HackThePlanet
neutral · AI labelView post →Last week, I watched 'Hackers' for the first time ever (don't @ me), and now 'The Net' has just started on RTÉ2. '90s internet drama nonsense. Amazing. Perfect. Love it. #film #Hackers #TheNet
positive · AI labelView post →For day 213 of my year long retrospective on made for TV movies that need a DVD/Blu Ray release, I chose the outrageously fun 1996 thriller Deadly Web. Likely riffing on The Net, this film features GiGi Rice as a single mom falling to the mercy of a cyberstalker who goes by the name Cybergod
neutral · AI labelView post →The Praetorians from the film the Net. Everyone needs to be very afraid
neutral · AI labelView post →Gen X and Millennials will remember this: Y'all remember the movie "The Net" back in 95 starring Sandra Bullock?? This reminds me of that movie where they completely eraser identity across the entire internet. Loomer is being erased 🤣🤣😭
neutral · AI labelView post →Join me, @ladynefeli.bsky.social, and ArtSirenMJ this Friday, Oct 23rd @ 4pm PST for Final Girl Friday! Friday's topic will be "Obsession"! If you've never seen the movie, I'll be screening it in the Net-Flex voice channel in the Discord Thurs, Oct 22nd @ 4pm PST. twitch.tv/flexwithtrex
neutral · AI labelView post →Next week on GME! we're going to record a podcast about The Net (1995), a techno-thriller from the early days of the World Wide Web, to see how the film holds up. Please reply here with questions / comments if you'd like to participate in the Fan Feedback section of the show.
neutral · AI labelView post →there’s a movie called HAMNET? i don’t want to know anything about it. i just want to imagine it’s an adaptation of THE NET in the porky pig universe
neutral · AI labelView post →. My favorite Alan Ladd film is a tie between THE GLASS KEY (1942) & THIS GUN FOR HIRE (1942) After those two are THE MAN IN THE NET (1959) 13 WEST STREET (1962) #FilmNoirClub 🗝️ #FilmNoir 🕵️ #FilmSky 📽️ .
neutral · AI labelView post →You can pull some advanced shit like you're in the 1995 smash film The Net, but are only asking for like 1900 in Bitcoin (lol) and can't use Google street view
neutral · AI labelView post →“Two months ago, I saw a provocative movie on cable TV. It was called 'The Net' with that girl from 'The Bus.' I did a little reading and I realized it wasn't that far fetched.”
neutral · AI labelView post →RIP Sam Neill. A Person I Knew from the screen,and I saw him Jurassic Park,only a few scenes and some from The Net until I see him in Jurassic World:Dominion. I do feel that The Jurassic DOminion film is the last time we see Sam in the screen. Rest well,Doctor Alan. God bless ya.
neutral · AI labelView post →Gleeman dropping references to the 1995 Sandra Bullock film “The Net” gives me reason to post the best letterboxd review I’ve ever written. boxd.it/b5RYpT
neutral · AI labelView post →In 1995, Sandra Bullock was the first person ever to buy movie theater tickets online, in promotion for her new film THE NET.
neutral · AI labelView post →Fun Fact: In 1995, Sandra Bullock became the first person ever to buy movie theater tickets online in a promotion for her movie The Net. Maybe they'll make The Net 2 and she can be the last person to buy a movie theater ticket.
neutral · AI labelView post →Tonight's family movie is The Net. I'm the only one in the house who has seen it!
neutral · AI labelView post →Every website has a secret π symbol at the bottom somewhere that links to the film “The Net” starring Sandra Bullock.
neutral · AI labelView post →Thinking about the Sandra Bullock film The Net
neutral · AI labelView post →Ju-On finished~ Still a great horror film with a lot of great moments Onward to Pulse and the Horrors of The Net because Ghosts are in your Puter RIGHT NOW!!!
neutral · AI labelView post →I've written about Hackers twice - once for that anniversary story and again five years later. The thing no one realizes about Hackers is it wasn't the first hacker movie that year. The Net was. Hackers captured techno-optimism and became a cultural mainstay. The Net was pessimistic and forgotten.
neutral · AI labelView post →Rewatching The Net after many many years. Now I understand why it was a film I watched over and over and over as a teen. 😉
positive · AI labelView post →Two months ago, I saw a provocative movie on cable TV. It was called The Net, with that girl from the bus.
neutral · AI labelView post →Finally watching DISCLOSURE and this film is wild. All the goofy tech stuff of THE NET and LAWNMOWER MAN combined with loser guys being terrified of women climbing the corporate ladder faster than them.
neutral · AI labelView post →Two months ago, I saw a provocative movie on cable TV. It was called "The Net," with that girl from the bus.
neutral · AI labelView post →My grandmother was convinced that the events of the Sandra Bullock film THE NET were real and happened to someone she knew’s daughter in law so it’s going to give some good advice in between the howls of the damned
neutral · AI labelView post →the real life hamnet was the inspiration for the movie The Net (1995)
neutral · AI labelView post →The movie “The Net” was released 30 years ago today. It is a film in which Sandra Bullock tries to convince us that the internet is a bad idea. We failed to heed her warnings.
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