Conceiving Ada (1999)
19991h 25mNRScience FictionDramaFantasy
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?
Cast
Tilda SwintonAda Augusta Byron King, Countess of Lovelace
Francesca FaridanyEmmy Coer
Timothy LearySims
Karen BlackLady Byron / Mother Coer- JJohn Perry BarlowJohn Crosse
- JJohn O'KeefeCharles Babbage
- JJ.D. WolfeNicholas Clayton
- OOwen MurphyWilliam Lovelace
David BrooksChildren's Tutor- EEsther MulliganMary Shelley
- EEllen SebastianDr. Fury
Mark CapriDr. Locock- JJoe WemplePriest / Talk Show Host
- CChris von SneidernMusician In Elevator
- DDavid EppelSimon
- RR.U. SiriusBarlow
- KKashka PeckTeenage Ada
- RRose LockwoodChild Ada / Claire
Crew
- Director
- Lynn Hershman-Leeson
- Cinematography
- Bill ZarchyHiro Narita
- Editing
- Robert Dalva
Details
- Released
- February 19, 1999
- Language
- English
- Studio
- Complex Corporation, Hotwire Productions, Outpost Studios
- IMDb
- tt0118882
