Official Movie Website Theatrical Release 02/10/06 Home Video 06/06/06 MPAA Rating Rated PG-13 for intense sequences of violence Running Time 1 hour 45 minutes Genre Action, Suspense Director Richard Loncraine Writer Joe Forte Cast Harrison Ford, Paul Bettany Studio Warner Brothers |
FIREWALL
SYNOPSIS
Computer security specialist Jack Stanfield
(HARRISON FORD) works for the Seattle-based
Landrock Pacific Bank. A trusted top-ranking
executive, he has built his career and reputation on
designing the most effective anti-theft computer
systems in the industry, protecting the bank’s
financial holdings from the constant threat of
increasingly sophisticated internet hackers with his
complex network of tracers, access codes and
firewalls.
Jack’s position affords a comfortable life for him,
his architect wife Beth (VIRGINIA MADSEN) and their
two young children – a standard of living that
includes a beautiful home in a residential com-
munity just outside the city.
But there’s a vulnerability in Jack’s system that he
has not accounted for: himself. It’s a vulnerability
that one very ruthless and resourceful thief is
poised to exploit.
Computer security specialist Jack Stanfield
(HARRISON FORD) works for the Seattle-based
Landrock Pacific Bank. A trusted top-ranking
executive, he has built his career and reputation on
designing the most effective anti-theft computer
systems in the industry, protecting the bank’s
financial holdings from the constant threat of
increasingly sophisticated internet hackers with his
complex network of tracers, access codes and
firewalls.
Jack’s position affords a comfortable life for him,
his architect wife Beth (VIRGINIA MADSEN) and their
two young children – a standard of living that
includes a beautiful home in a residential com-
munity just outside the city.
But there’s a vulnerability in Jack’s system that he
has not accounted for: himself. It’s a vulnerability
that one very ruthless and resourceful thief is
poised to exploit.
Bill Cox (PAUL BETTANY) has been studying Jack and his family for many months; monitoring their online
activity, listening to their calls and learning their daily routines with an arsenal of digital and video
recorders and parabolic microphones that tap into the most personal of information. He knows the
names of their children’s friends, their medical histories, and the I.D. code for the security station that
guards their neighborhood. Having spent the better part of a year methodically infiltrating every aspect of
Jack’s identity, Cox is now ready to make good on his investment.
Leading a tight team of mercenary accomplices, he seizes control of the Stanfield house, making Beth
and the kids terrified hostages in their own home and Jack his unwilling pawn in a scheme to steal $100
million from the Landrock Pacific Bank.
With every possible escape route shrewdly anticipated and blocked by Cox, every potential ally out of
reach and the lives of his wife and children at stake, Jack is forced to find a breach in his own formidable
security system to siphon funds into his captor’s offshore account – incriminating himself in the process
and eradicating any electronic evidence that Cox ever existed.
Under constant surveillance, he has only hours to accomplish the risky transactions while desperately
hunting for a loophole in the thief’s own impenetrable wall of subterfuge and false identities to save his
family and beat Cox at his own game.
--© Warner Brothers
activity, listening to their calls and learning their daily routines with an arsenal of digital and video
recorders and parabolic microphones that tap into the most personal of information. He knows the
names of their children’s friends, their medical histories, and the I.D. code for the security station that
guards their neighborhood. Having spent the better part of a year methodically infiltrating every aspect of
Jack’s identity, Cox is now ready to make good on his investment.
Leading a tight team of mercenary accomplices, he seizes control of the Stanfield house, making Beth
and the kids terrified hostages in their own home and Jack his unwilling pawn in a scheme to steal $100
million from the Landrock Pacific Bank.
With every possible escape route shrewdly anticipated and blocked by Cox, every potential ally out of
reach and the lives of his wife and children at stake, Jack is forced to find a breach in his own formidable
security system to siphon funds into his captor’s offshore account – incriminating himself in the process
and eradicating any electronic evidence that Cox ever existed.
Under constant surveillance, he has only hours to accomplish the risky transactions while desperately
hunting for a loophole in the thief’s own impenetrable wall of subterfuge and false identities to save his
family and beat Cox at his own game.
--© Warner Brothers
Brenda and David
Jack Stanfield (Harrison Ford) is the online security executive of a bank in Seattle, Washington. His wife,
Beth (Virginia Madsen) and two kids, Sarah (Carly Schroeder) and Andrew (Jimmy Bennett), have been
kidnapped and are being held hostage by Bill Cox (Paul Bettany) and Jack must hack into the bank's
computers and transfer $100,000,000 to Cox's offshore bank accounts to save their lives. Ford and
Bettany give decent performances but Mary Lynn Rajskub (Fox's TV hit "24") gives the best performance
as Janet Stone, Jack's secretary. Firewall, directed by Richard Loncraine, is fast paced and worth the
price of admission.
Jack Stanfield (Harrison Ford) is the online security executive of a bank in Seattle, Washington. His wife,
Beth (Virginia Madsen) and two kids, Sarah (Carly Schroeder) and Andrew (Jimmy Bennett), have been
kidnapped and are being held hostage by Bill Cox (Paul Bettany) and Jack must hack into the bank's
computers and transfer $100,000,000 to Cox's offshore bank accounts to save their lives. Ford and
Bettany give decent performances but Mary Lynn Rajskub (Fox's TV hit "24") gives the best performance
as Janet Stone, Jack's secretary. Firewall, directed by Richard Loncraine, is fast paced and worth the
price of admission.
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