1. Plot

2. Cast

3. Production

4. Release

5. Reception

6. References

7. External links

I.T. is a 2016 thriller film directed by John Moore and written by Dan Kay and William Wisher. It stars Pierce Brosnan, James Frecheville, Anna Friel, Stefanie Scott, and Michael Nyqvist and was produced by David T. Friendly and Beau St. Clair, who was Brosnan's producing partner at the production company Irish DreamTime before her death. The film was released on September 23, 2016, with a limited release and on video on demand.{{clarify|reason=Was it released on video on demand on September 23, or later?|date=July 2017}}

Plot

Mike Regan is a self-made aviation tycoon who lives in a state-of-the-art smart house full of modern technology with his wife Rose and 17-year-old daughter Kaitlyn. Mike's company is developing an app called "Omni Jet" which will increase business while the company raises much-needed financial capital with a stock offering. However, it requires U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) approval.

At the company, Mike meets Ed Porter, a 28-year-old information technology (I.T.) consultant and calls him to fix his home's Wi-Fi signal, which his daughter complains is slow. Porter also upgrades the Global Positioning System (GPS) in Mike's car and claims that he also worked at the National Security Agency (NSA) and had taken part in a military exercise in Kandahar.

Porter meets Kaitlyn and starts a relationship with her through social media, but Mike fires him after Kaitlyn invites Porter into the house; this ends his promising career at the company. Devastated, Porter begins to remotely access Mike's private data and his house as he covertly monitors them through the security cameras and devices all over the house. He also spies on Kaitlyn and secretly records her masturbating in the shower.

Porter sends fake emails to Mike's clients and the SEC, threatening the company's survival. He also takes full control of the house's technology, which leaves the family terrified. He uses a spoof email to send Rose fake mammogram results, saying that she tested positive for breast cancer. Rose is extremely distressed, but her test results were actually negative according to her attending physician. After Mike becomes aware that Porter has done this, he attacks Porter and threatens to kill him if he does not stay away from his family.

Porter then uploads the video of Kaitlyn masturbating online, immediately catching the attention of her schoolmates; she is mortified and blames her father for installing the technology in their house. Angered, Mike drives to see Porter but he is also being monitored by Porter, who mockingly telephones him through the car navigation system and sends him the video. Porter then remotely activates the car's brake system, hitting a nearby stalled truck and destroying the car.

Mike requests help from Henrik, an I.T. expert, who says that Mike must destroy all the smart technology in the house and delete his emails, bank accounts and computer files. Henrik explains that Porter's real name is Richard Edward Portman and that his father committed suicide when he was six years old. He also reveals that he never worked for the NSA, as he claimed, and the photograph of him with soldiers in Kandahar was fake. To allow Mike to obtain evidence from Porter's apartment, Henrik creates a diversion by stealing the phone of a waitress at a coffee shop with whom Porter's obsessed and texting Porter, telling him to come to the coffee shop. While Porter is gone, Mike manages to steal the thumb drives containing the evidence and escape just as Porter realizes it is a diversion.{{clarify|reason=Does Porter go home and catch Mike?|date=July 2017}} Realizing that the masked man that he saw in his apartment was Mike, he frames him for assault.

After the police release him, Mike returns home to find Kaitlyn and Rose ziptied and their mouths gagged with tape by Porter, who holds the family at gunpoint.{{clarify|reason=Was he already doing this, or did he start once Mike came?|date=July 2017}} A struggle ensues; Porter shoots a window and Mike punches Porter, who hits his head and lays dying as Mike holds the gun to his chest, but Rose begs Mike not to shoot.{{clarify|reason=Did Mike shoot Porter? Did Porter survive?|date=July 2017}}

Some time later, the company's employees applaud Mike and his family for successfully developing the app and their house is restored.

Cast

• Pierce Brosnan as Mike Regan
• James Frecheville as Ed Porter
• Anna Friel as Rose Regan
• Stefanie Scott as Kaitlyn Regan
• Michael Nyqvist as Henrik
• Adam Fergus as Sullivan^[3]
• Jason Barry as Patrick
• Clare-Hope Ashitey as Joan
• Brian Mulvey as George
• Austin Swift as Lance^[4]

Production

The film was first announced in October 2013 as a revenge thriller with Pierce Brosnan headlining the project. It was set to be financed by Voltage Pictures and directed by Stefano Sollima.^[5] In August 2014, it was revealed that John Moore had replaced Sollima as the film's director, and commissioned a complete rewrite of the script by William Wisher.^[6] Stefanie Scott was cast in April 2015 as the daughter of Brosnan's character,^[7] and that the film was to start shooting in June later that year, in Ireland.^[8] A month later (in May), it was reported that Anna Friel had joined the cast as the wife of Brosnan's character and that James Frecheville would play the young antagonist.^[9] Michael Nyqvist joined the project a few days later.^[10] It is the last film produced by Beau St. Clair before she died from cancer.^[11][12] Principal photography began on June 25, 2015,^[13] and finished on July 29, 2015.^[14]

Release

Reception

References

External links

• {{IMDb title|2679552|I.T.}}

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