In this wild cyber-thriller, hacking genius Dade “Zero Cool” Murphy (Jonny Lee Miller) is the new kid in a New York City high school, where he falls in with a group of fellow elite teen hackers. This corps of Nintendo-generation, videogame-loving “keyboard cowboys” likes to wreak some good-natured cyber havoc—until they encounter The Plague (Fisher Stevens), an evil former hacker turned head of computer security at a multinational conglomerate. When they learn that The Plague is plotting to frame them for his own nefarious crimes, the young computer whizzes devise a plan to bring him down ("Hackers of the world unite!"). Murphy’s zany cohorts include the tough-talking Kate (Angelina Jolie), a.k.a. Acid Burn, and resident wild man Cereal Killer (Matthew Lillard).