Conceiving Ada

February. 19,1999      NR
Rating:
5
Trailer Synopsis Cast

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?

Tilda Swinton as  Ada Augusta Byron King, Countess of Lovelace
Francesca Faridany as  Emmy Coer
Timothy Leary as  Sims
Karen Black as  Lady Byron / Mother Coer
David Brooks as  Children's Tutor
Mark Capri as  Dr. Locock

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