The Matrix

A closer look at the story

By day Thomas Anderson is an ordinary programmer; by night he is a gifted hacker who goes by the name Neo. When he notices mysterious men in black suits keeping watch on him, the answers he has been searching for arrive with a stranger called Morpheus: the world Neo believes he lives in is in fact an enormous deception. Joining Trinity and Morpheus, Neo becomes part of an underground resistance waging war on the vast, powerful computers that rule the earth. Written and directed by Lana and Lilly Wachowski, the 136-minute 1999 film stars Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss and Hugo Weaving in groundbreaking science-fiction action.