Signature Program

SUMMER WARS

Directed by Mamoru Hosoda

Japan, 2009, 1h 54min, DCP

Signature Program

There are no current or future screenings planned for this film.

All matinees will be dubbed in English. All screenings starting at 6:00 PM and later will be shown in Japanese with English subtitles.

An enjoyably trippy Japanese animated feature from director Mamoru Hosoda, Summer Wars combines real-world drama (school crushes, testy relatives) with virtual-world dramatics.-Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer

It’s a sugar rush of candy-colored images, a beautifully drawn tale of family tradition and a bracing brain tonic about the Internet’s charms and vulnerabilities.-Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post

Kenji is a teenage math prodigy recruited by his secret crush Natsuki for the ultimate summer job – passing himself off as Natsuki’s boyfriend for four days during her grandmother’s 90th birthday celebration. But when Kenji solves a 2,056 digit math riddle sent to his cell phone, he unwittingly breaches the security barricade protecting Oz, a globe-spanning virtual world where millions of people and governments interact through their avatars, handling everything from online shopping and traffic control to national defense and nuclear launch codes. Now a malicious AI program called the Love Machine is hijacking Oz accounts, growing exponentially more powerful and sowing chaos and destruction in its wake.

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