A few idiosyncratic comments about "Sneakers": The first time I saw the film, I did enjoy it as fairly innocuous (sp?) entertainment. But one big ideological image really struck me; in fact, it struck me so much that I have used a clip of it in my Intro to Communication class as an example of Ideological Images in Media, focusing on the celebration of capitalism (and, in turn, the denegration of socialism) in such images. SPOILER WARNING! In Sneakers, Ben Kinsley is the villian who steals a computer box that can access any system in the world. He obviously is a psychotic (in fact, at one point Robert Redford explicitly says, "You ARE crazy" to him). Kinsley's master plan is to erase every financial record in existence with this box, thus "crashing the [capitalistic] system," so that "there's no rich or poor. Everyone's the same." In other words, he is a socialist (Meglomaniac Mastermind Version). He is so clearly crazy that the equation of Socialist = Nutso Villian is easy to see. In fact, the most outrageous manifestation of this equation is the implication in the movie that Kinsley, the crazy socialist, actually caused the Savings and Loan scandal! Thus, in the ideological web of this film, a catastrophe in reality caused by excess capitalism is actually attributed to a radical socialist. My simplistic take on Sneakers. Matt McAllister Virginia Tech