August

Josh Hartnett, Naomie Harris, Rip Torn, and Adam Scott star in director/co-screenwriter Austin Chick's tale about an ambitious dotcom entrepreneur attempting to stay afloat as the stock market begins to collapse and the entire country remains blissfully unaware of the national tragedy looming ever ...more

During the closing weeks of summer 2001, nearing the end of the dot com bubble, young business vanguards were approaching a critical period in their entrepreneurial endeavors. Ashes from the figurative boom were strewn about, with company models predicated on speculation rather than concrete development plans, and the state of international politics on the precipice of being profoundly changed. With hundreds of millions of dollars being poured into flimsy ventures and money making promises ...more