The read
Critics rate it 33 points higher than audiences do. It runs a compact 1h 25m.
Synopsis
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?
Ratings
IMDb5/10
Rotten Tomatoes83%
Critics rate it 33 points higher than audiences do.
11 audience votes
Key crew
- Lynn Hershman-LeesonDirector
- Lynn Hershman-LeesonWriter
- Eileen JonesWriter
Cast
- Tilda SwintonAda Augusta Byron King, Countess of Lovelace
- Francesca FaridanyEmmy Coer
- Timothy LearySims
- Karen BlackLady Byron / Mother Coer
- John Perry BarlowJohn Crosse
- John O'KeefeCharles Babbage
- J.D. WolfeNicholas Clayton
- Owen MurphyWilliam Lovelace
- David BrooksChildren's Tutor
- Esther MulliganMary Shelley
- Ellen SebastianDr. Fury
- Mark CapriDr. Locock
Stills
Themes
woman director