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Conceiving Ada (1999)

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?

  • Science Fiction
  • Drama
  • Fantasy

Top billed cast

  • Photo of Tilda SwintonTilda SwintonAda Augusta Byron King, Countess of Lovelace
  • Photo of Francesca FaridanyFrancesca FaridanyEmmy Coer
  • Photo of Timothy LearyTimothy LearySims
  • Photo of Karen BlackKaren BlackLady Byron / Mother Coer
  • Photo of John Perry BarlowJohn Perry BarlowJohn Crosse
  • Photo of John O'KeefeJohn O'KeefeCharles Babbage
  • Photo of J.D. WolfeJ.D. WolfeNicholas Clayton
  • Photo of Owen MurphyOwen MurphyWilliam Lovelace
  • Photo of David BrooksDavid BrooksChildren's Tutor
  • Photo of Esther MulliganEsther MulliganMary Shelley

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