The Net.

From: National Review | Date: September 11, 1995| Author: Simon, John | Copyright information

The title of The Net refers both to the Internet and to the meshes in which it entraps the heroine of Irwin Winkler's film. Angela Bennett (Sandra Bullock) is a computer troubleshooter for a San Francisco company who lives near Los Angeles, reclusively. For four years now she has been ordering her food and drink via the same computer that provides her with employment and entertainment. That, admittedly, is stretching it, as is much else in John Brancato and Michael Ferris's script. T...

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