 Release Date:
11 July 2008 (Premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2008)
Genre: Drama
Director: Austin Chick
Writer: Howard Rodman
Runtime: 88 mins
Language: English
Color: Technicolor
MPAA: R
Status: Completed
Filming Dates: 16th April 2007
Plays: Tom Sterling (Josh is also the producer of August)
Cast:
+ Naomie Harris --- Sarrah
+ Adam Scott --- Joshua Sterling
+ Emmanuelle Chriqui --- Morela Sterling
+ Robin Tunney --- Melanie Hanson
+ Rip Torn --- David Sterling
+ David Bowie --- Cyrus Ogilvie
+ Andre Royo --- Dylan Gottstalk
Tag line:
+ Comes just before the fall.
Synopsis:
Meet Tom Sterling (Josh Hartnett), CEO of Landshark, a revolutionary new
dotcom company that’s going to make him a millionaire many times over. That
is, if it can stay afloat long enough to get out of stock market ‘lock-up’.
On paper, Tom’s got it all: A flash car, a loft apartment and his own hip,
one-of-a-kind start-up business. He’s got style, charm and an ego the size
of Manhattan. He’s the ‘Jerry McGuire’ of the internet set, with enough
self-confidence to back it all up. Enough of it to get through a crucial
business meeting with major Wall Street investors without so much as a
concept of a proposal on paper. Enough of it to be appointed key-speaker at
a conference of fellow internet entrepreneurs, then stand up in front of the
smartest people in the industry without even preparing a speech. Enough of
it to justify – scratch that – demand, from his accountant the purchase of a
brand new Learjet that’ll cost his cash-strapped company upwards of a
million bucks a month, before their ‘product’ has even been launched. Tom
Sterling thinks he understands business. Tom Sterling is about to get a
nasty shock.
When the bottom suddenly falls out of the dotcom industry, Landshark’s
shares plummet and the company looks like it won’t survive the weekend.
Suddenly Tom is forced to face some unpleasant facts. His brash
over-confidence is alienating his family, not least his younger brother
Joshua (Adam Scott), the computer-whiz who invented the Landshark model, who
has a wife and child to support and is near breakdown on account of Tom’s
cocky attitude and lack of respect for investors and business etiquette…
But then Sarrah (Naomie Harris), an old-flame of Tom’s, re-enters his life
and soon shows him the selfish, self-centered bastard he’s become, and his
walls come crashing down around him, forcing him to make drastic changes –
fast.
With a stellar young cast and a rip-roaring screenplay that will grip you
right up to its thrilling conclusion, AUGUST is an era-defining story about
risking everything to make one’s dreams reality – and the effects that may
have on those who truly love you…
Filming Locations:
+ New York, USA
Production Companies:
+ Original Media
+ 57th & Irving Productions
+ Periscope Entertainment
Distributors:
+ ContentFilm International |
David: But what do you actually do, Tom?
Tom: Excuse me
David: You. Landshark. What do you do?
Nancy: David-
David: I'm serious, Nance. I was there last Friday-
Tom: Where was I?
David: How do I know "where was I." I was dropping something off for Joshua. And
you know what I saw?.. Oreos... I'm sorry, Tom, you know me, I see
it, I say it. And what I saw was a whole bunch of kids, bright young kids.
They sit around all day, and when they get tired of sitting, which is more
often then not, they go to the kitchen. Eat some Oreos. Am I right, Tom?..
Then they go back to their desks, cute little desks, the ones from Ikea, am
I right, and play solitaire on the computer. Correct me, Tom, if I'm wrong.
And then, soon enough, they get hungry again... Now it's a long day, I'll
give you that. Ten in the morning 'til ten at night, seven days a week. But
I'm sorry--Why would anyone give you a million dollars, just to watch you
sit around and eat Oreos?
Tom: Dad, add some zeroes. Okay? Add two of them. That's what we're talking about here.
Tom: Just because you take your own failure, and call it success, don't take my success and
call it-
Tom: What did you want? Change the world, right? Stop the war? Poetry must be made by all?
Don't fucking deny it. I've seen the bookshelves. I grew up with them. Cinderblocks, two by fours, and five
copies of Soul on Ice. Well, you wanted to change the world, and
what'd you settle for-- Tenure?... You wanted to change the world.
Well, we're changing it. Tiananmen Square, that was the fax machine, right?
Well imagine what we'll get, now that we have the web. Your guy, the guy you
taught that seminar about, what's his face, McLuhan: global village, right?
We made it! We're making it everyday! While you puff up, all proud, all
smug— All satisfied, you know? And then it's like, tell the maid to dust the
Godard posters—
Tom: It's great to be here. We get invited to these things all the
time, and we never go, except this one is special. Because of you. Because
of Jason. And because of the free shrimp. Shrimp, pigs in a blanket, these
little caviar things on tiny crackers- But you didn't
come to hear me talk about the snacks in the green room. You came here
because we are at the forefront of a revolution: a revolution in technology,
but also a revolution in-
Tom: What I mean is, if I say what you already know I'm going to say, it's like the hamster
scurries and scurries, the wheel spins, you know, but at the end of the day,
we're still in the cage. Right? I mean, if we were really that into
self-congratulation, we'd all be living in Hollywood.
Tom: You know what
the problem is with— With, I don't know what to call it, with 'our thing'?
The problem is, what are we doing? Are we making the world a less sucky
place? Or more sucky? How are we, every day, impacting the suckage?
Tom: Twenty years from now, will they be looking at us, the way we look, at the tobacco
industry? My mom and dad were right. It pains me to say it, but they
were right. When they said, "Those who make half a revolution only dig their
own graves." Tom: What the 'net is supposed to do, what new
broadband is supposed to do, what new technology is supposed to do, what the
digital whatever is supposed to do-- Is increase freedom. Is increase
choice. But what is our new technology offering in the way of choice?
AOL, or Earthlink. Gates, or Ellison. Miller Lite, or Coors. Gore, or Bush. B2B, or
not B2B. Tom: We make money. Tons of it. We help big greedy
advertising agencies sell the useless products of massive, morally-corrupt,
multi-national corporations. We advise them... On how to
"aggregate eyeballs." Tom: What's left is 'what we do'.
What's left is those people who are very, very good at 'what we do. 'You all
know people, in your shop, who are amazing designers. Writers in a language
that's being invented before our eyes. I grew up with one. My brother
Joshua. I can charm a VC-- Well, on a
good day, I can charm a VC. But Joshua...? Joshua can imagine. Joshua can
make something where yesterday there was nothing- |
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