August (2008)

User Rating:

5.5/10   

Director:

Austin Chick

Writer (WGA):

Howard A. Rodman (written by)

Genre:

Drama

Tagline:

Comes just before the fall.

Plot:

August centers on two brothers fighting to keep their start-up company afloat on Wall Street during August 2001, a month before the 9/11 terrorist attacks. |

Plot Keywords:

Brother Brother Relationship | Strip Club | Dotcom | Pinball Machine | New York City

Cast

Ron Insana	...	Himself
Marc Klee	...	Guest Analyst
Josh Hartnett	...	Tom
Adam Scott	...	Joshua
Robin Tunney	...	Melanie
Andre Royo	...	Dylan
Athena Currey	...	Girl in bathroom
John Lavelle	...	Suit #1
Sanjit De Silva	...	Suit #2
Jeremy Bobb	...	Suit #3
Carmine DiBenedetto	...	Tyler
Zoe Kazan	...	Gal Employee
Robin Taylor	...	Guy Employee (as Robin Lord Taylor)
Emmanuelle Chriqui	...	Morela
Naomie Harris	...	Sarrah

MPAA:

Rated R for language and some sexual content.

Runtime:

88 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

USA:R

Filming Locations:

New York City, New York, USA

Company:

Original Media

Soundtrack:

Five

Josh Hartnett's Best Film To Date

Screened this at the Sundance 2008 Festival. This movie actually caught me by surprise, it was very hip and surprisingly Josh Hartnett really brought it. The movie has a modern "Wall Street" type vibe, the story follows Tom (Hartnett) who is a super confident .com entrepreneur who is in crisis mode during the downward spiral of the .com stock bust just before September 2001. Hartnet nails this role with high energy output and makes this a very watchable flick. Austin Chick the director is obviously very talented and throws just the right amount of style and cool music into the film to keep it slick and contemporary which should broaden its appeal past just the Gen-X group. The one downside is that the film gives the other characters so little room to make their presence felt, especially David Bowies character who gets only a few minutes of face time. Other then that the movie really has a nice pace and the ending worked very well when you consider all the superficial things that Americans thought they cared about until Sept 2001, and then realized there are somethings much more important then money and stature.

Film should get some nice play on the indie circuit, though indie folks probably will be hard swayed to pay over for a Hartnett movie. I would reckon that Josh Hartnett will win over some who doubted him with this performance and maybe even get a little award type talk. I know its hard for me to believe either :)