Conceiving Ada (1999)

Conceiving Ada (1999)

1999-02-19 Canada 85 Min. PG-13
4.5 9 votes

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?

Cast

Tilda Swinton is Ada Augusta Byron King, Countess of Lovelace
Ada Augusta Byron King, Countess of Lovelace
Karen Black is Lady Byron / Mother Coer
Lady Byron / Mother Coer
John Perry Barlow is John Crosse
John O'Keefe is Charles Babbage
Charles Babbage
J.D. Wolfe is Nicholas Clayton
Nicholas Clayton
Owen Murphy is William Lovelace
William Lovelace
David Brooks is Children's Tutor
Children's Tutor
Esther Mulligan is Mary Shelley
Mary Shelley
Ellen Sebastian is Dr. Fury
Mark Capri is Dr. Locock
Dr. Locock