Angela Bennett

Angela Bennett is the main protagonist of the 1995's film The Net and the 1997 series of the same name. In the movie she is portrayed by Sandra Bullock, who also portrayed Lenina Huxley in Demolition Man, Gracie Hart in the Miss Congeniality films, Ryan Stone in Gravity and Malorie Hayes in Bird Box, as well as voicing Miriam in The Prince of Egypt. In the series, she is portrayed by Brooke Langton.

In the movie Angela Bennett is a top systems analyst from Venice, California who telecommutes to Cathedral Software in San Francisco. Her interpersonal relationships are completely online and, on the phone, limiting interactions with neighbors and her mother, who is institutionalized with Alzheimer's disease.

One day she receives a program named "Gatekeeper" that one of her colleagues from Cathedral sent to her and begins to discover a conspiracy that tries to take over the country by using cyberterrorism. She has to expose it, because now the conspirators are after her and have every bit of her data erased her from the computers in order to make it possible.

If she doesn´t, she will die like her colleague. First they send a member of their organization Jack Devlin to assassinate her and then have her identity taken over by a criminal named Ruth Marx.

In time she discovers that the conspirators are the Praetorians, led by CEO Jeff Gregg, head of software company Gregg Microsystems who also killed the Undersecretary of Defense Michael Bergstrom through cyberterrorism, because he had become an obstacle to their plans. The program was a tool of the Praetorians in order to enable this death.

She manages to expose the conspiracy by sending all the evidence she has to the FBI as well as installing a virus into Gregg's mainframe that destroys the entire Praetorian program. Both Marx and Devlin are killed, whilst Gregg is arrested. Angela then gets her life back.

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