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Julie (Toni Hudson), a young computer engineer has just been turned down for a good job at a local bank, and on top of that injury, some of the ideas she presented in her bid for the job were stolen by the bank's resident computer specialist. Angry enough to act on what happened, Jule meets up with equally disenchanged Michael (Lee Montgomery) who has been arguing with the bank to put through a wire transfer. Between the two of them, they fake some ATM cards, and while in the process of skimming off funds from the bank machine, they discover that some big-time international hackers are working on a plot to sink the Federal Reserve Bank. These thieves waste no time in discovering that Julie and Michael are onto their plot, and chase the duo all the way to Washington, D. C. where the pair try to convince the FBI that the impending electronic attack on the Federal Reserve Bank is real.
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Prime Risk
This is a fun movie. It was filmed in my hometown of Culpeper VA. The Federal Reserve Bank shown in the movie is now the Library of Congress film preservation facility. Brings back a lot of memories.
Prime Risk is prime fun!
"Prime Risk" is a story of a disgruntled worker who teams up with a want-to-be pilot highschool kid to get revenge on her former employers. During their attempts of stealing money from a company, and while intoxicated with the idea of getting rich, they accidentally stumble onto a Russian undercover team using the same principles to obtain access to the U.S. Stock Market for the purpose of causing day worse than the infamous "Black Monday", thereby bankrupting the nation. The two then come clean to law enforcment, but aren't believed and instead investigated for their crimes, and then become the only two who can stop the Stock Market crash while on the run from the law and the Russian Agenets who discover them spying on them.
This film, while twenty years old now, was the beginning of expanding the minds of many during the "decade of decadence". This movie was the "The Net" (1995, which stared Sandra Bullock) of it's day and was years ahead of it's time in pointing out the possibility of "identity theft" which is common place today while at the same time offering the great "movie style" that has become loved by millions through the magic of Hollywood which always gave us a happy ending; at least until some grew tired of every movie ending happily and caused Hollywood to make "questionable endings" which have become over used to allow sequels.
The movie aired on HBO in the 1980's and was easily overlooked being in an era that poured our so many hit movies like "The Breakfast Club", "St. Elmo's Fire", "The Blues Brothers", "Animal House", "Fast Times At Ridgemont High", "Friday The 13th", "Nightmare On Elm Street", "Full Metal Jacket", "Ghostbusters", "Private Benjamin", "Risky Business", "Top Gun", "An Officer And A Gentelman", "E.T.", "War Games", "Police Acadamy", etc... the list goes on and on. This movie stays in the hearts of those of us who didn't follow the "main stream" of loving the movies every one else loved. Some of us will always love movies like this; like the people now targeted in today's television commercials with music we grew up listening to and that is better than anything made today so much so that today's "artists" re-make them. This film definitely belongs in the same class as "American Anthem", "Red Dawn", "Side Out", "Private Lessons", etc... and so many other great movies that were never advertised to be in movie theaters all across America, but aired on HBO and certianlly were equal in quality to all the well recognized movie titles of its era. It was a great movie to those of us who "went the oppisite way of society" many, many years before being a "society outcast" was considered cool.
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