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Directed by | Phil Alden Robinson |
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Cinematography | John Lindley |
Edited by | Tom Rolf |
Music by | James Horner |
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Distributed by | Universal Pictures[1] |
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Running time | 126 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $23 million[1] |
Box office | $105.2 million[2] |
Sneakers is a 1992 American crime comedy drama film directed by Phil Alden Robinson, written by Robinson, Walter Parkes, and Lawrence Lasker, and starring Robert Redford, Dan Aykroyd, Ben Kingsley, Mary McDonnell, River Phoenix, Sidney Poitier, and David Strathairn; the film was released by Universal Pictures.
Sneakers is a heist film in which five criminals lend out their skills for honest jobs. Now they are asked to steal a code breaker device, and since the men who hire them seem shady, they investigate the situation and learn that the job has nefarious and far-reaching motives behind it.