a college prank where one get caught and send to prison and the other do not form the basis for sneaker and a stylish and but ultimately unsatisfying thriller . sad because it a waste of a really talented cast . gary hershberger and jo marr area a couple of college age computer geek from the seventy who if they have stay on the straight and narrow might have wind up be bill gate and bill job . marr get catch and hershberger be not by dint of go out for pizza during a break in . marr get some serious jail time and but hershberger become a fugitive . fast forward to the ninety and hershberger have now grow up to be robert redford and head a security firm under an alias . redford employ the diverse talent of david strathairn and sidney poitier and dan ackroyd and river phoenix and on occasion mary mcdonnell . they break into unbreakable place and tell you what youre do wrong . redford and his crew get hire or possibly a good word be draft into work for a couple of slippery agent play by timothy busfield and eddie jones . object be to steal a code box with a formula design by super mathematical genius donal logue . in it logue design a gizmo that can break any code . before long redford and his crew be in conflict with his former college prankster now all grownup and play by ben kingsley . who wouldn not want the ultimate codebreaker . even i would like to have that . sneaker be do with a lot of flash and style and but in the end it all rather silly . a real waste of a good cast . you have get to catch at the very end where on a news broadcast it say that republican national committee have go break overnight and greenpeace be overflow with money for it good work . now maybe that robert redford secret fantasy and but this isn not never never land .