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August
Directed by
Austin Chick
PG-13
2008
88m
Drama
5.3
36%
22%
5.2
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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.
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Cast of August
Josh Hartnett
Tom Sterling / Producer
Adam Scott
Joshua Sterling
Robin Tunney
Melanie Hanson
Andre Royo
Dylan Gottschalk
Naomie Harris
Sarrah
Emmanuelle Chriqui
Morela Sterlinfg
Laila Robins
Ottmar Peevo
Caroline Lagerfelt
Nancy Sterling
Rip Torn
David Sterling
David Bowie
Cyrus Ogilvie
Alan Cox
Barton
Ron Insana
Himself
Marc Klee
Himself
Athena Currey
Girl in Bathroom
Sanjit De Silva
Suit #2 (Jonathan)
Jeremy Bobb
Suit #3 (Mason Neuberger)
Carmine DiBenedetto
Tyler
Zoe Kazan
Gal Employee
Robin Lord Taylor
Guy Employee
John Lavelle
Suit #1 (Brad)
August Ratings & Reviews
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
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.
Newsday
John Anderson
Smartly scripted, convincingly atmospheric morality fable in which Hartnett, usually insubstantial as a good guy, plays a convincingly flawed character galloping toward the precipice.
MTV
Kurt Loder
...the picture ... provides Josh Hartnett with one of his most interesting roles, and it elicits one of his sharpest performances.
TV Guide
Ken Fox
This stylish, well acted drama chronicles one once-successful dot-com's efforts to stay afloat in the wake of the Internet boom's bust.
New York Post
Kyle Smith
Only an amusing cameo by David Bowie enlivens things, but he's onscreen for just about two minutes at the end.
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
There's not much to it, but Austin Chick's hyper-focused indie does serve as a nicely assured showcase for lead Josh Hartnett.
New York Times
Jeannette Catsoulis
Has a dark desperation that(TM)s morbidly compelling. But the movie(TM)s amoral momentum is fatally slowed by an acronym-heavy script and flimsy characterizations that offer fine actors...little to play.
Filmcritic.com
Paul Brenner
all gloss and pizzazz but mostly pizz and no azz.
AV Club
Nathan Rabin
August is a brooding, boring indie drama about the death of the culture-wide hallucination that was the dot-com bubble, and the moment when countless dot-com millionaires on paper became real-life paupers.
Metromix.com
Matt Pais
Merely serves to watch a company's ashes fall without really considering what started the fire.
Village Voice
Nick Pinkerton
August seems to be missing something essential -- a prologue? Or maybe it's not what's missing that's the problem, but what's here.
EmanuelLevy.Com
Emanuel Levy
Rodman's potentially intriguing idea about the 2001 crash of the dot-com biz just months before 9/11 is poorly executed by helmer Chick (XX/XY), who doesn't take full advantage of his star cast, headed by Josh Hartnett, Naomie Harris and David Bowie.
NewsBlaze
Prairie Miller
A procession of anger mismanagement protagonist episodes of rude behavior with assorted unbelievably receptive babes, and a glutton-for-punishment old flame (Naomie Harris) whom he manages to re-con into bed, before she wises up all over again.
Slant Magazine
Nick Schager
Hartnett does windbag cockiness well, yet the overriding conception of his character and the Dot Com phenom in general is so straightforward and unrevealing that his effort goes for naught.
Observer
Rex Reed
The direction by somebody called Austin Chick gives the appearance of being phoned in from an Internet bar in another town.
The Hollywood Reporter
Justin Lowe
The actors are not well supported by Howard A. Rodman's self-satisfied script, which would rather tell than show, relying at several points on long, smug speeches that bring the narrative to a grinding halt.
Variety
Dennis Harvey
This middling drama has no glaring faults, but simply lacks the intended urgency. There's scant sense of surprise in a narrative trajectory that feels preordained.
ComingSoon.net
Edward Douglas
The worthwhile attempts at creating realistic character dynamics and situations within a very specific era in New York is notable for sure.
Film Threat
Don R. Lewis
August doesn't make a lot of sense nor does it seem to have a message or point.
CinemaBlend
Joshua Tyler
Has a gritty, edgy look and it helps propel the audience along with Tom as he rides the edge of the dot com bust.
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