Winston takes a personal interest in Milo. He needs his brilliance to stay ahead of the field in the race for convergence. There is no second place. For Milo it’s a dream come true, a chance to become a legend in his own right. It’s hard to disappoint Teddy, but their offer is too good to refuse.

With a talented new colleague (RACHAEL LEIGH COOK), Milo is soon caught up in the exciting challenge of realizing Winston’s vision. Winston is an inspired mentor and no problem remains unsolved for long, but new developments are brought to Milo with such speed and frequency, he begins to doubt their source.

Tragedy strikes and Milo’s doubts become suspicions. It looks as if the company will stop at nothing to win. He investigates and the consequences become more and more unnerving, until there is no one left to trust and this twenty-first century David stands alone against Goliath.

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Just how far should one man go to stay ahead of his competition? Milo Hoffmann (Ryan Phillippe) is a young and gifted computer software designer who with his close friend Teddy is about to launch a high-tech start-up firm based on Milo's inventive ideas in convergence, in which he's helping to create new ways for different forms of digital technology to work in harmony. However, before Milo and Teddy can get their company off the ground, Milo receives a very tempting offer from Gary Winston (Tim Robbins), a trailblazing genius in the digital world who has turned his company N.U.R.V. (which stands for "Never Underestimate Radical Vision") into one of the richest and most powerful computer firms on Earth. While Milo is sympathetic to Teddy's beliefs that computer technology should belong to the people and that open source software is the most promising future lies, Winston has long been Milo's role model in design and research, and Milo feels Winston's offer is too good to pass up. Milo and his girlfriend Alice Poulson (Claire Forlani) move out to Silicon Valley, and at first Milo thrives on the challenges of his new position, and develops a close working relationship with fellow designer Lisa Calighan (Rachael Leigh Cook). But Milo underestimates the ruthlessness of the leading-edge software industry, and he soon learns there's a sinister undercurrent to Winston's drive to stay on top.

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When computer whiz Milo (Ryan Phillippe) accepts a job at NURV--a Seattle software company owned by Gary Winston (Tim Robbins), Milo's friend and partner, Teddy (Yee Jee Tso), declines the job offer because he believes in an open source code. Teddy fears that Winston is out to control the market and wants no part in his plans. Then Teddy is killed, and Milo begins to suspect Winston ordered not only the murder of Teddy but others who stood in his way as well.

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Stanford grad and computer whiz Ryan Phillippe is lured away from a friend's start-up company by a fantastic job offer from billionaire software tycoon Tim Robbins, only to discover that his new employer will stop at nothing--including murder--to develop a system that will let him control global access to information.

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High-tech thriller about hotshot computer programmer (Phillippe) recruited by large, monolithic software corporation whose CEO (Robbins) uses various underhanded methods to evade monopoly laws and crush the competition.

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After graduating from Stanford, two idealistic computer whiz kids who are best friends are offered jobs at NURV, a giant Portland company with a driven boss, Gary Winston, on the verge of a world-linking satellite communication system. With support from his girlfriend Alice, Milo takes the job; Teddy says no and continues work on a media compression program he wants to make available free. Winston takes a person interest in Milo, whose genius can help NURV meet its launch date, and Milo responds with brilliance and long hours. When Teddy meets with tragedy and Winston's offhand remark makes Milo suspicious, he decides to investigate Winston and NURV. But, whom can he trust?

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Stanford grad Milo Hoffman (Ryan Phillippe) and his equally talented friend, Teddy (Yee Jee Tso), intend to form an Internet start-up and take the world by storm. That all changes when Milo is courted by deceptively friendly software magnate Gary Winston (Tim Robbins), the immensely wealthy head of world-dominating, Portland-based company, NURV. Milo takes the bait, leaving Teddy behind. Arriving in Portland to a NURV-provided house and car, with his girlfriend (Claire Forlani) in tow, Milo finds himself working on Winston's masterplan--software that will link the world's communications devices together. But it's not long before Milo begins to uncover disturbing evidence of Winston's unethical--and brutal--business tactics. When Winston's web of violence touches Milo's world, he joins forces with fellow NURV programmer, Lisa (Rachael Leigh Cook), and sets out to tell the world of Winston's reprehensible practices.

Though obviously influenced by the practices of a certain Pacific Northwest-based software empire and its recognizable leader, Howard Franklin's (THE NAME OF THE ROSE) script is a snappy popcorn-muncher that manages to generate suspense even though it realizes its own excesses. Robbins, as evil geek Gary Winston, is obviously having a good time. ANTITRUST takes the conventions of the conspiracy film and adds a candy-colored millennial sheen.

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Stanford grad Milo (Ryan Phillippe) and his friend Teddy (Yee Jee Tso) intend to form an Internet startup. That all changes when immensely wealthy and too-friendly software magnate Gary Winston (Tim Robbins) gets Milo to leave Teddy behind and join his company. Milo soon discovers Winston's brutal, unethical business tactics and joins forces with a fellow employee (Rachael Leigh Cook) to expose Winston.

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If the pitch for this paranoid thriller wasn't THE CONVERSATION meets HACKERS, it should have been. Hotshot programmer Milo (Ryan Philippe) plans to launch a start-up with his college pals, until he gets an offer from software corporation NURV, owned by über-geek Gary Winston (Tim Robbins). NURV is developing a digital convergence program, Synapse, that will wire the world together; seduced by Winston's personal attention, Milo signs up. This alienates Milo's best friend, Teddy (Yee Jee Tso), who truly believes that information wants to be free and robber barons like Winston are hijacking the Internet. Milo and girlfriend Alice (Claire Forlani) nevertheless settle comfortably into their new life of pricey perks, until Milo begins to suspect there's something sinister afoot at NURV. Winston keeps handing him pieces of brilliant code, but won't reveal the programmer's name. Then Teddy is murdered, ostensibly by racist skinheads, so Milo starts poking around and, with a few well-placed keystrokes, uncovers a conspiracy. Ironically, the filmmakers seem to think the audience for this movie about super-smart people is super-dumb. How else to explain flashbacks to things that just happened, except that they think viewers won't remember the sinister implications without prompting? And it's unfortunate that when our heroes decide to expose NURV's secrets, they package the information like political art by Barbara Kruger, which would probably lead the average image-saturated consumer to dismiss it as flashy cyber-pranking. Frankly, the unusually elaborate disclaimer buried in the credits is more interesting than most of the film. It reads in part, "there are a number of... entities and persons with names which may be the same as or similar to those used in this motion picture. However, this motion picture is entirely fictional and (except for minor incidental resemblances) is not intended to depict or refer to any other existing entities or persons and any such references are purely incidental." Who's afraid of big, bad Bill Gates?

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Warning: Fatal Movie Error. Plot and Acting Do Not Compute. In this whacked-out, wired world, Cruel Intentions' Ryan Phillippe is a computer whiz kid. He has got some hot programming ideas, an even hotter girlfriend (Claire Forlani) and a job offer from the largest software company in the world. But after working at his new gig for, like, a week, Phillippe senses that his nutty Bill Gatesian boss (Tim Robbins) is up to no good. Things turn into a game of electronic espionage, with some business about deadly sesame seeds, a lot of ludicrous techno babble and double-crossing computer babes sending this flick into meltdown territory. Phillippe and Forlani do little to help--they move through the story stiffer than a PC motherboard. And while Robbins is a great psycho, he's better suited for classier roles. Take the movie's own warning to heart and "don't trust it" to be worth a byte of your cash.

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In the most revolutionary, globally impacting and cutthroat business the world has yet encountered - the high-speed, high-stakes computer industry - the powerful come to play, and play to win. Welcome to the dark heart of the digital age, to a place where millionaires are made in nanoseconds, where fortunes are won and lost in just a single line of code, and where private wars are being waged right now to decide who will control the future.

Antitrust is a relentless suspense thriller that enters this hidden world where the rich and the brilliant collide, where a handful of bright, driven young men and women have the means to make or break the technology that will dominate the global economy. Here in an atmosphere of secrecy, fierce competition and accusations of monopoly, the real fear for a rising young programmer caught up in the frenzy isn't just antitrust actions but whether, when things turn dangerous, anybody can be trusted at all.

Milo Hoffmann (Ryan Phillippe) has the stuff it takes to make it to the top of the computer world. He's a master of the digital domain who's about to do what every young computer genius wants most: launch a high-tech start-up. It's not just any start-up either. Milo's garage-based company is devoted to the technology major corporations across the globe are currently chasing: the technology of digital convergence, or the linking of all forms of digital communications such as telephone, television, computers and wireless from one super-powerful feed. Milo wants to be a part of history, to build the technology that will change how people live a few years from now.

But just as Milo is headed for a breakthrough, he gets an offer he can't refuse. It comes from the renowned Gary Winston (Tim Robbins), head of the multi-billion dollar software corporation N.U.R.V. (which stands for "Never Underestimate Radical Vision"), and Milo's professional hero. The supremely rich and powerful Winston wants to recruit Milo for his top-echelon digital convergence team - and despite having to leave behind his anti-corporate best friend and business partner, Teddy, Milo feels he has no choice. The money, the resources, the opportunity Winston offers can't be had anywhere else. Even more exciting, Winston has taken a personal interest in Milo and it seems like he will finally get the chance to truly make his mark.

So Milo and his artist girlfriend Alice (Claire Forlani) head off for the land of the superachievers, where fast thinking can make very fast money. Milo is quickly introduced to high-security, pressure-cooker atmosphere of N.U.R.V. Assigned a talented, and intellectually tempting, colleague named Lisa (Rachael Leigh Cook) to assist him, Milo gets intensely caught up in the race to achieve Winston's vision. Winston inspires Milo to new levels of brilliance by refusing to let any problem go unsolved for long. But as new developments are brought to Milo with astonishing speed and accuracy, he begins to doubt their source.

Then tragedy strikes at Milo's personal life in the form of a vicious crime, and his suspicions turn to terror. Is Milo a merely a pawn in Winston's games of surveillance and intimidation? Is Winston willing to go to any extreme to win? As further hints of secret undertakings emerge, Milo begins to unearth a plot so vast and so brilliantly designed, it might be foolproof. The more Milo learns, the more he himself becomes a target. Now it is Milo whose survival is at stake, unless he can outwit the very heart of N.U.R.V., a corporate behemoth whose power, greed and paranoia know no bounds.

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