"Sneakers" is a very entertaining and suspenseful film starring Robert Redford, Dan Aykroyd, Ben Kingsley, Mary McDonnell, River Phoenix, Sidney Poitier, and David Strathairn as a group of computer hackers who stumble upon the ultimate codebreaking machine. The movie is very exciting from start to finish. It is also culturally significant as it pertains to computer security.
Martin Bishop (Redford) and Cosmo (Kingsley) were computer hackers in college in the late '60s. One night, when Martin went out to get a pizza, Cosmo got busted by the police and sent to prison for twelve years. Since then he turned to a life of computer crime. Meanwhile, Martin got a job in charge of investigating bank security, having changed his name. He now works with a group of other hackers doing similar work.
One day, Martin gets a visit from some men who claim to belong to the NSA. They want Martin and his friends to obtain a mysterious box from Jannick, a math professor, for which they will pay them a large sum of money. They obtain the box and hand it over, but before getting the money, they learn that Jannick has been killed. They then learn that the device they have obtained is the ultimate codebreaker, capable of cracking every secret computer code in the world and thus compromising every security system.
The next day, Martin gets kidnapped and taken to a secret location where he meets Cosmo, who wants Martin to work with him. After Martin refuses, Cosmo threatens to reveal his past identity, which will land him in jail. The next day, they figure out where Martin had been taken and go there. With a great deal of effort they manage to steal back the codebreaking device.
In the end, the government learns that they have this device and makes a deal with them for it. The team secretly keeps the device, though.
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