This is a bizarre hybrid, a hi-tech caper movie with lo-tech charm, an action pic with incongruously mellow Californian pacing, a post-Cold War thriller with sassy wit. Redford heads a team of 'sneakers' - freelance tech-heads who execute computer heists to test corporate security systems. It's basically an old folk's operation, with crusty CIA vet Poitier, wild card conspiracy nut Aykroyd, blind genius Strathairn, and McDonnell as a mature femme fatale, only Phoenix guarantees the teen market.
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WEIRD SCIENCE (1985)
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Two high-school nerds use a computer to create the perfect woman and not only is she steamy and sexually complicit, but she does the housework. A nice dream for males, which, despite its reactionary views on women, has become a minor cult item. From 1980s teen film master John Hughes.
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