Conceiving Ada
movie
Released February 19, 1999
Genres:
Overview
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 Swinton
as
Ada Augusta Byron King, Countess of Lovelace
Francesca Faridany
as
Emmy Coer
Timothy Leary
as
Sims
Karen Black
as
Lady Byron / Mother Coer
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John Perry Barlow
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John Crosse
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John O'Keefe
as
Charles Babbage
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J.D. Wolfe
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Nicholas Clayton
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Owen Murphy
as
William Lovelace
David Brooks
as
Children's Tutor
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Esther Mulligan
as
Mary Shelley
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Ellen Sebastian
as
Dr. Fury
Mark Capri
as
Dr. Locock
Crew
Lynn Hershman-Leeson
as
Director
Lynn Hershman-Leeson
as
Producer
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Henry S. Rosenthal
as
Producer
Lynn Hershman-Leeson
as
Writer
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Eileen Jones
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Writer
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Bill Zarchy
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Director of Photography
Hiro Narita
as
Director of Photography
Robert Dalva
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Editor
Lynn Hershman-Leeson
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Production Design
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Laura F. Haynes
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Art Direction