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Cypher

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Cypher, movie still

95 minutes – Sci-Fi Thriller
Language: English
Release date: August 2, 2002
DVD release date: August 2, 2005
Distributor: Miramax Films

Similar to Cube, Vincenzo Natali’s debut feature, this is yet another story of labyrinthine entrapment set in the not so distant future. When Digicorp signs up a non-entity to become a corporate spy, it seems the perfect opportunity for Morgan Sullivan to bring some excitement to an otherwise bland life. He not only gets to travel from state to state (using the alias, Jack Thursby) but Sullivan quickly reinvents himself as a cigarette smoking, single malt drinking, lover of golf from the South Seas. But his assignments – secretly recording speeches given at hotel conventions put on by rival corporation Sunways – turn out to be drab, uneventful affairs. Then a strange, attractive woman called Rita reveals that Digicorp has been using the conferences to brainwash Morgan into believing that he really is Jack, and Morgan is soon co-opted to do counterintelligence work for Sunways, pretending to think he is Jack and feeding bogus data to Digicorp. Swept along by the unclear motives of both corporations, and by the interventions of a shadowy freelance operative called Sebastian Rooks, Morgan begins to lose his grip on who he is, what he wants and where his allegiances lie.

Cypher, movie poster

Crew:

Producer:

Paul Federbush
Wendy Grean
Casey La Scala
Hunt Lowry

Executive Producer:

Shebnem Askin
E.K. Gaylord II

Associate Producer:

Richard J. Anobile

Director:

Vincenzo Natali

Screenwriter:

Brian King

Cinematographer:

Derek Rogers

Editor:

Bert Kish

Composer:

Michael Andrews

Cast: Roles:

Jeremy Northam
Lucy Liu
Nigel Bennett
Timothy Webber
David Hewlett
Kari Matchett
Kristina Nicoll
Joseph Scoren
Stephen Brown
Arnold Pinnock
Jocelyn Snowdon
Boyd Banks
Steve Jackson
Dan Duran
Valerie Buhagiar
Bruce McFee
Alec Stockwell
Judy Sinclair

Morgan Sullivan
Rita
Finster
Callaway
Dunn
Diane
Amy
Digicorp Technician #1
Digicorp Technician #2
Pilot
Stewardess
Fred Garfield
Waiter
Speaker #1
Speaker #2
Businessman Boise
Resident
Women in Elevator