DIRECTOR: Austin Chick
PRODUCER: Charlie Corwin, Josh Hartnett, David Guy Levy, Elisa Pugliese
CINEMATOGRAPHER: Andrij Parekh
WRITER Howard A. Rodman
COUNTRY: USA
YEAR: 2008
RELATED WEBSITES: http://imdb.com/title/tt0470679/BRIEF: Josh Hartnett brilliantly plays Tom Sterling, a young, aggressive dot-com entrepreneur fighting to keep his start-up company, LandShark.com, afloat. After his initial outrageous success fueled by slobbering media hype, high-flying A-lister Tom finds himself on a personal and professional downward spiral as he struggles to reunite with former girlfriend Sarrah (Naomie Harris, 28 Days Later), regain control of his company from his investor Ogilvie (a coolly vicious David Bowie), and deal with age-old family wounds with his father David (Rip Torn)—representing a whole generation who doesn’t get the all-paper assets company culture—and his brother Joshua (Adam Scott, The Aviator). Director Austin Chick brings intense visual edge to Howard A. Rodman’s pitch-perfect, unsparing script. More than another Enron or dotcom bust story, August slyly captures a decadent time in our once seemingly bullet-proof business culture. 88mins. Rip Torn and Austin Chick in attendance.
