Part of Staff Picks and programmed by Bob, who says “A favorite from my own early days of moviegoing, SNEAKERS is a mainstream movie that the mainstream forgot, but is still oddly treasured by cinephiles as a not-so-guilty pleasure. The stacked cast, tight direction, and stirring soundtrack make it one of the best examples of a suspense comedy.”
When shadowy U.S. intelligence agents blackmail a reformed computer hacker and his eccentric team of security experts into stealing a code-breaking ‘black box’ from a Soviet-funded genius, they uncover a bigger conspiracy. Now, he and his “sneakers” must save themselves and the world economy by retrieving the box from their blackmailers. The stacked ensemble cast features Robert Redford, Dan Aykroyd, Ben Kingsley, Mary McDonnell, River Phoenix, Sidney Poitier and David Strathairn, among others.