Movie Profile: SWORDFISH
| Attribute | Details |
| Title | Swordfish |
| Release Date | June 8, 2001 |
| Director | Dominic Sena (Gone in 60 Seconds) |
| Writer | Skip Woods (X-Men Origins: Wolverine) |
| Producers | Joel Silver, Jonathan D. Krane |
| Genre | Action, Thriller, Crime |
| Runtime | 99 minutes |
| Box Office | $147 million (Budget: $102 million) |
| Distributor | Warner Bros. Pictures |
| Lead Cast |
• John Travolta (Gabriel Shear) • Hugh Jackman (Stanley Jobson) • Halle Berry (Ginger Knowles) • Don Cheadle (Agent J.T. Roberts) • Sam Shepard (Senator James Reisman) • Vinnie Jones (Marco) • Drea de Matteo (Melissa) |
Trailer
Plot Overview
Stanley Jobson (Hugh Jackman) is a convicted master hacker living in isolation, forbidden by law from touching a computer after disrupting an FBI surveillance program. Desperate to regain custody of his daughter, he is approached by the alluring Ginger Knowles (Halle Berry), who offers him $100,000 just to meet her employer.
Ginger introduces Stanley to Gabriel Shear (John Travolta), the charismatic leader of a covert counter-terrorist organization called “Black Cell.” Gabriel forces Stanley to build a worm program capable of siphoning $9.5 billion in unused government slush funds from a DEA front account.
As Stanley delves deeper into the operation, he discovers that Gabriel’s true motive is to fund ruthless anti-terrorist retaliation strikes around the globe. Caught between FBI Agent J.T. Roberts (Don Cheadle) and Gabriel’s lethal henchmen, Stanley must navigate hostage standoffs, double-crosses, and high-tech deception to survive and save his daughter.
