[JKCalhoun]

You would like the film The Conversation (1974).

[dizhn]

Enemy of the State is a pretty good light weight successor of that movie as well. It's such a fun watch too. (RIP Gene Hackman)

[ProllyInfamous]

I just finished re-watching EotS — really advanced tech portrayal for a late-90s film.

Quote (from movie): "just think, all this technology is already twenty years old..."

Much better than The Conversation, but the links were uncanny (including Hackman's line: "yeah this has been my office where I do things for a long time*" — and it's the same set[up]).

EotS honestly has the best death finale scene I've ever seen (not being hyperbolic, the best). Don't want to spoil it }:D ------>

[ProllyInfamous]

For a second I thought this was the Mel Gibson movie where he proves a Conspiracy Theory (1997)... but Gene Hackman, post-Watergate — with an ensemble cast of eavesdroppers?! — tonight's movie, decided.

Thank you for your recommendation - it be crazy up in here (head, country, world).

[teachrdan]

One fan theory is that Gene Hackman plays the same character, decades later, in Enemy of the State (1998).

[jasomill]

Directed by Francis Ford Coppola, Palme d'Or at Cannes, three Oscar nominations including Best Picture (which, amusingly, it lost to The Godfather Part II).

Great movie.