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Where was Sneakers filmed?

1993 film, directed by Phil Alden Robinson.

  • San Francisco

The story is set in San Francisco, so the filming stayed close to the setting.

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Where it’s set vs. where it was filmed

Set in
San Francisco
Filmed in
San Francisco
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About Sneakers

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Released
1993
Director
Phil Alden Robinson
Cast
Robert RedfordDan AykroydBen KingsleyMary McDonnellRiver PhoenixSidney PoitierDavid StrathairnDonal LogueEddie JonesJames Earl Jones
Genre
CrimeHeistComedy ThrillerBlack ComedyDrama

In 1969, student hackers and close friends Martin Brice and Cosmo use their skills to reallocate money from causes they consider evil to underfunded ones that help the world.

They offer to clear his record if he recovers a Russian-funded black box device, codenamed Setec Astronomy, from mathematician Gunter Janek.

The team realizes the NSA actually funded the box and that the supposed agents are impostors.

Famous lines from Sneakers

Could you name the film from one of these? Famous lines turn up in the daily game.

  • Sixty-two counts?Wallace
  • I know, kind of different.Martin Bishop
  • Terminated, 1987. Why was that?Buddy Wallace
  • We do. National Security Agency.Gordon
  • Erwin Emory, also known as "Whistler.Wallace

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