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DOT-COMMAND Josh Hartnett gives off movie-star heat in August, an indie Wall Street for Internet boomers
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Limited Release: Jul 11, 2008; Rated: R; Length: 88 Minutes; Genre: Drama; With: Naomie Harris and Josh Hartnett
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Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman is a film critic for EW
Anyone who thinks that Josh Hartnett isn't a true movie star should see his riveting, high-wire performance in August, a shrewdly dramatized look back at the bursting of the dot-com bubble. As Tom, the hipster CEO of a start-up that's about to crash and burn, Hartnett has a scruffy glamour worthy of Brad Pitt, as well as a whiplash gift-of-gab intensity all his own. Tom knows he's running on fumes, and the director, Austin Chick, and the screenwriter, Howard A. Rodman, use the summer of 2001 to comment on a culture that is still lethally leveraged. They've made an indie Wall Street for the Internet era of virtual-profit hucksterism. A-
Posted Jul 11, 2008
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