Sneakers is a 1992 film directed by Phil Alden Robinson (Field of Dreams) and starring Robert Redford, Dan Aykroyd, Ben Kingsley, Mary McDonnell, River Phoenix, Sidney Poitier, and David Strathairn. 1992 is a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Film refers to the celluloid media on which movies are printed Film is a term that encompasses motion pictures as individual projects, as well as the field in general. ... Phil Alden Robinson (born March 1, 1950) is an American film director and screenwriter whose films include Field of Dreams, Sneakers, and In the Mood. ... Baseball field from the movie. ... Robert Redford Charles Robert Redford Jr. ... Dan Aykroyd (left) with John Belushi in The Blues Brothers Daniel Edward Aykroyd (born July 1, 1952 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) is a comedian, actor and screenwriter. ... Sir Ben Kingsley (born Krishna Bhanji on Friday, December 31, 1943) is an English actor of Indian (Gujarati) and Russian-Jewish descent. ... Mary McDonnell (born April 28, 1952 in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania) is an American actress. ... Phoenix in My Own Private Idaho (1991). ... Sir Sidney Poitier, KBE (born February 20, 1927) is an actor. ... David Russell Strathairn (born 26 January 1949) is an American film and television actor. ...

The movie is about a team of security sneakers who are tricked into finding a mysterious box that can break into any encrypted computer system in the United States. The term tiger team was originally a military term for a team whose purpose is to penetrate security of friendly installations, and thus test their security measures. ... In cryptography, encryption is the process of obscuring information to make it unreadable without special knowledge. ...

Leonard Adleman, a computer scientist noted for his contributions to public-key cryptography (see RSA), was credited as a consultant on the film; he wrote and designed the visual aids for a lecture given by one of the characters. Leonard Adleman Leonard Adleman (born December 31, 1945) is a theoretical computer scientist and professor of computer science and molecular biology at the University of Southern California. ... Public-key cryptography is a form of cryptography which generally allows users to communicate securely without having prior access to a shared secret key, by using a pair of cryptographic keys, designated as public key and private key, which are related mathematically. ... In cryptography, RSA is an algorithm for public key encryption. ...

The team is a diverse group of renegades, consisting of Martin Bishop, the leader and an expert hacker; Donald Crease, a former CIA employee; Mother, a paranoid expert with gadgets; Carl Arbogast, a young genius; and Erwin 'Whistler' Emory, a blind man with superb hearing. They also enlist the help of Bishop's old girlfriend, Liz, who teaches gifted children and wants no more to do with the team's "little club".

Several internal conflicts exist, such as between Mother and Crease about the truth of conspiracy theories concerning the CIA, and the jousting between Bishop and Liz. However, they work together seamlessly, and the team dynamic in addition to its technological aspect is a part of the appeal of this movie. This proposed logo for a U.S. government agency was dropped due to fears that its Masonic symbolism would provoke conspiracy theories. ...

In the 1960s, Martin Brice and his roommate Cosmo had hacked into several top secret databases, but only Cosmo got caught. Twenty years later, Martin "Bishop" has almost forgotten this embarrassing event. Then, two men claiming to be from the NSA charges Bishop with bringing them "Janek's box", which contains a key that can access and alter the most important databases in the United States. If he refuses, his alias will be revealed to the government agency that has been searching for him for twenty years. The 1960s, or The Sixties, in its most obvious sense refers to the decade between 1960 and 1969, but the expression has taken on a wider meaning over the past twenty years. ...

The team completes the task, but finds out that the men aren't from the NSA; they are agents of Bishop's old friend, Cosmo, who now works for the Mafia. They have to steal the box yet again. // Mafia The Mafia, also referred to as La Cosa Nostra (Italian, variously translated as This Thing Of Ours or Our Thing), is the collective name of various secret organizations in Italy, Sicily, Corsica and the United States. ...

Cast

• Jo Marr - College-Aged Cosmo (as Jojo Marr)
• Gary Hershberger - College-Aged Bishop
• Robert Redford - Martin Bishop/Martin Brice
• Ben Kingsley - Adult Cosmo
• Sidney Poitier - Donald Crease
• David Strathairn - Erwin 'Whistler' Emory
• Dan Aykroyd - Mother
• River Phoenix - Carl Arbogast
• Stephen Tobolowsky - Werner Brandes
• Bodhi Elfman - Centurion S&L Night Guard
• Timothy Busfield - Dick Gordon
• Eddie Jones - Buddy Wallace
• Mary McDonnell - Liz
• Donal Logue - Dr. Gunter Janek
• James Earl Jones - Bernard Abbott (of the NSA)

Robert Redford Charles Robert Redford Jr. ... Sir Ben Kingsley (born Krishna Bhanji on Friday, December 31, 1943) is an English actor of Indian (Gujarati) and Russian-Jewish descent. ... Sir Sidney Poitier, KBE (born February 20, 1927) is an actor. ... David Russell Strathairn (born 26 January 1949) is an American film and television actor. ... Dan Aykroyd (left) with John Belushi in The Blues Brothers Daniel Edward Aykroyd (born July 1, 1952 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) is a comedian, actor and screenwriter. ... Phoenix in My Own Private Idaho (1991). ... Stephen Tobolowsky (born May 30, 1951 in Dallas, Texas) is an American actor. ... Timothy Busfield (born June 12, 1957) is an American actor. ... Eddie Jones is an American actor. ... Mary McDonnell (born April 28, 1952 in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania) is an American actress. ... Donal F. Logue (February 27, 1966, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian actor. ... James Earl Jones James Earl Jones (born January 17, 1931) is a well-known African American actor who was born Todd Jones in Arkabutla, Mississippi son of Robert Earl Jones and raised in Dublin, Michigan by his maternal grandparents. ...

External links

• Sneakers at the Internet Movie Database
• Leonard Adleman's recollections of Sneakers