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BlackBerry
Title:
BlackBerry
Summary:
It’s 1996, and Mike Lazaridis (Jay Baruchel) and his business partner and best friend Douglas Fregin (Matt Johnson) are on the edge of creating the world’s first smartphone. Unfortunately for them, they are less business savvy than they are tech, and struggle to keep their company, Research in Motion, afloat. Everything changes when cunning businessman Jim Balsillie (Glenn Howerton) agrees to join the company, bringing with him the money and experience needed to create and sell a prototype of their invention. Seemingly overnight the three men revolutionize the way people work, communicate, and connect. Celebrities, politicians, and businessmen are now addicted to their Blackberrys. The company's value skyrockets, yet within a few short years shady business dealings, personal grievances, and, perhaps most dangerously, the iPhone, threaten the company’s incredible success. -- Amazon.
Audience:
MPAA rating: R for language throughout.
General Note:
Widescreen.

Originally released as a motion picture in 2023.

Based on the book "Losing the Signal" by Jacquie McNish & Sean Silcoff.

Special features: audio commentary by writer/director Matt Johnson, writer/producer Matt Miller, executive producer/composer Jay McCarrol, associate producer/cinematographer, Jared Raab and production designer Adam Belanger; audio commentary by Matt Johnson and associate producer/editor Curt Lobb; audio commentary by former RIM engineer Matthias Wandel; 9 featurettes: Creating animatics, Fly on the wall, Locations and art, Directing, Cinematography, Editing, Scoring, Goofs and spoofs, The crew of BlackBerry.
Edition:
Widescreen.
Physical Description:
1 videodisc (119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Publisher:
IFC Films,
Publication Date:
2023
Publication Information:
[New York] : IFC Films, [2023]

©2023
Call Number:
DVD BLACKBERRY
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