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Conceiving Ada

Feb 19, 1999 · 1h 25m
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Science Fiction
Drama
Fantasy

PLOT

Emmy Coer, a computer genius, devises a method of communicating with the past by tapping into undying information waves. She manages to reach the world of Ada Lovelace, founder of the idea of a computer language and proponent of the possibilities of the "difference engine." Ada's ideas were stifled and unfulfilled because of the reality of life as a woman in the nineteenth century. Emmy has a plan to defeat death and the past using her own DNA as a communicative agent to the past, bringing Ada to the present. But what are the possible ramifications?

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CAST

Tilda Swinton
Ada Augusta Byron King, Countess of Lovelace
Francesca Faridany
Emmy Coer
Timothy Leary
Sims
Karen Black
Lady Byron / Mother Coer
John Perry Barlow
John Crosse
John O'Keefe
Charles Babbage
J.D. Wolfe
Nicholas Clayton
Owen Murphy
William Lovelace
Directed by Lynn Hershman-Leeson

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Status
Released
Original language
EN
Budget
—
Revenue
—
Production
Complex Corporation, Hotwire Productions, Outpost Studios
Country
CA, US

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