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Conceiving Ada

(1999)

February 19, 1999• 1h 25m
47%
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Overview

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?

Lynn Hershman-Leeson

Director

Top Billed Cast

TS

Tilda Swinton

Ada Augusta Byron King, Countess of Lovelace

FF

Francesca Faridany

Emmy Coer

TL

Timothy Leary

Sims

KB

Karen Black

Lady Byron / Mother Coer

JPB

John Perry Barlow

John Crosse

JO

John O'Keefe

Charles Babbage

JW

J.D. Wolfe

Nicholas Clayton

OM

Owen Murphy

William Lovelace

DB

David Brooks

Children's Tutor

EM

Esther Mulligan

Mary Shelley

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