Conceiving Ada (1999)
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?
- Date of release
- 1999-02-19
- TMDB
- 4.7 / 10 (11)
- Runtime
- 1h 25m
- Genres
- Science Fiction, Drama, Fantasy
- Director
- Lynn Hershman-Leeson
Casting
- 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
- David Brooks — Children's Tutor
- Esther Mulligan — Mary Shelley
- Ellen Sebastian — Dr. Fury
- Mark Capri — Dr. Locock
Interesting facts
Conceiving Ada is a 1997 film produced, written, and directed by Lynn Hershman Leeson. Henry S. Rosenthal was co-producer of the film.
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