Conceiving Ada (1999)

4.7/10 85 min Science Fiction Drama Fantasy

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

Ada Augusta Byron King, Countess of Lovelace

Francesca Faridany

Emmy Coer

Timothy Leary

Sims

Karen Black

Lady Byron / Mother Coer

David Brooks

Children's Tutor

Mark Capri

Dr. Locock

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