Breaking the Code April 9, 2009

Breaking the Code is an exceptional and riveting biographical drama about Alan Turing, the brilliant mathematician whose work paved the way for the computer age and whose behind-the-scenes role in breaking the Germans' "Enigma" code assured an Allied victory in World War II. But it was his breaking another code--the law against practicing homosexuality--for which he is most remembered, and the subsequent trial that tarnished his reputation and unfairly stripped him of his livelihood and, ultimately, his life