Hacker (film)
Hacker (theatrically released as Anonymous) is a 2016 crime thriller, directed by Akan Satayev, about a group of young hackers who got involved with an online crime group and black market dealers across Toronto, Hong Kong, New York, and Bangkok. The cast consisted of Callan McAuliffe, Lorraine Nicholson, Daniel Eric Gold, and Clifton Collins Jr. The story was loosely based on real events. The screenplay was written by Timur Zhaxylykov and Sanzhar Sultan, who also produced in association with Brillstein Entertainment Partners. The film had a limited release in the US (under the title Anonymous), on December 2, 2016. Following that, Sony Pictures released the film on home entertainment. Plot As a family of immigrants who moved to Canada, the Danyliuk's subsequently struggle for money and have to live on welfare. Alex grew up with no friends and spent his time online, playing games. He later started making money as a "Clicker" by generating online traffic to earn revenue for websites. He eventually leaves home to live in Toronto to attend college. To make extra money to support himself, Alex turns to a life of crime and identity theft, with the help of Sye, a street-wise hustler who introduces him to the world of black market trading. They start with lost and stolen credit cards and fake transactions. Alex gets caught trying to defraud the International Bank of Canada, the bank that fired his mom, and persuades Curtis, the bank's Head of Security, by making a deal of fixing their unsecure site and computers for free, in exchange of letting him and Sye go. What Alex did was leaked to the Dark Web. He received a lot of praises from other members of the Dark Web for what he did, because it was unusual to hack a bank by physically visiting it. This act caught the attention of Zed, a mysterious masked figure, who's known as the head of the Dark Web. Alex meets Kira, a young female hacker, who he met after Sye used his laptop to talk to her and asks to meet up. Through Sye's suggestion, Alex asks Kira to join him and Sye. Kira introduced them to a lot more ways to earn money by printing their own credit cards (through the credit card machine brought by Kira) and using Bitcoin. The three of them start earning more money. Sye gets suspicious of the way Kira is working, saying that they do not know who Kira's customers are and where she gets them from. Kira suggests to Alex that they relocate to Hong Kong, where people like her and Alex belong, and Sye can stay in Canada if he wants to. Alex says he can't just leave Sye behind but did not answer when Kira tells him to think about it. While Kira is in the middle of a deal she had set up, Sye is once again questioning her customers, telling Alex that it's suspicious of them to buy a whole truck of their goods.