Swordfish (2001)

6.5R99 minDirector: Dominic Sena

2001 thriller movie directed by Dominic Sena

Swordfish is a 2001 American action thriller film directed by Dominic Sena, written by Skip Woods, produced by Joel Silver, and starring John Travolta, Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry, Don Cheadle, Vinnie Jones, and Sam Shepard.

Stanley Jobson is an ex-con and computer hacker who is recruited into a bank robbery conspiracy.

Swordfish was released by Warner Bros. Pictures on June 8, 2001. The film received mostly negative reviews, and grossed over $147.1 million in worldwide box office receipts on a production budget of $102 million.

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Swordfish (2001) — When the DEA shut down its dummy corporation operation codenamed SWORDFISH in 1986, they had generated $400 million which they let sit around; fifteen years of compound interest has swelled it to $9.5 billion. A covert counter-terrorist unit called Black Cell, headed by the dupli
Is Swordfish based on a true story?
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