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Tyler Fuller (William McNamara) has hacked the iCloud accounts of
approximately 100 celebrities, has found their private sex tapes and
posted them online for everyone to see. Sure, he got caught, convicted,
and spent 18 months in jail ... Sarah (Uldouz Wallace) is one of the
actresses whose account has been hacked. Sure, she was no big star, but on
the rise, when a sex tape her boyfriend shot without her permission went
public on the internet, and suddenly everybody associates her with just
that. And suddenly not only her agent drops her as he doesn't want to be
associated with that sort of thing, also her mother turns her back on her,
blaming her for ... basically having sex, really. And it seems every guy
she dates is interested in her for what one may call celebrity porn. So
over the 18 months Tyler Fuller is in prison, Sarah loses not just her
career but pretty much everything. And then he's out again ... Hacked
serves as a nice footnote to today's celebrity cult, a cult that for some
reason also demands its sacrifices and does little to punish those who
sacrificed them (in this case a hacker who leaked celebrity porn for
personal gain). And when I say "footnote" here, I mean that in
the best possible way, as it sheds light on one of the darker spots of
what we consider "celebrity", and does so as a compellingand yet
subtle drama that doesn't sensationalize, instead chooses a gradual
build-up - that ends with exactly the punch the story deserves. And of
course, a very solid cast helps in bringing the point across rather
splendidly.
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