Conceiving Ada (1999)

Science Fiction
Drama
Fantasy

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?

Cast

Ada Augusta Byron King, Countess of Lovelace
Dr. Locock
Priest / Talk Show Host
Musician In Elevator
Teenage Ada
Child Ada / Claire
Anne Isabelle Byron
Ralph Byron
Cocktail Server
Priest (voice)
Lady Byron / Mother Coer
Charles Babbage
Nicholas Clayton
William Lovelace
Children's Tutor
Mary Shelley

Crew

Original Music Composer
Director of Photography
Director of Photography
Production Design
Art Direction