Sundance BuzzCheck™: 'August'

Categories: Sundance Film Festival 2008

August, the second film from XX/XY directorAustin Chick, premiered to a vibrating crowd at the Library Center theater on Tuesday: The audience’s enthusiasm spilled over into the first five minutes of the movie as they applauded the opening credits. Starring JoshHartnett (pictured), Adam Scott, Robin Tunney — and featuring a perfect cameo from DavidBowie — the film is a sort of Boiler Room for the dot-com era, chronicling theboom and historically inevitable bust of a startup called Landshark in themonth leading up to the 9/11 attacks. It’s visually stylized andhas a nice, jittery score, but is perhaps most notable for Hartnett’sstrong performance as Landshark’s CEO (think JerryMaguire/Magnolia-style Tom Cruise). —Whitney Pastorek

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Ceballos
Wed 01/23/08 1:33 PM

Seeing as how I just trashed him yesteday in the item about Ryan Gosling, maybe THIS is the time Josh Hartnett finally shows everyone why he keeps getting relatively plum lead roles.

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Ben
Wed 01/23/08 5:44 PM

I want to see this. Please?

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GingerCat
Wed 01/23/08 7:44 PM

Thanks for this post. I liked XX/XY, so I’m excited to see something new from the director. I like Robin Tunney too.

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Danielle
Wed 01/23/08 8:37 PM

Hmmm…not sure how accurate this review is….a lot of this information is pulled straight from the Festival Film Guide. While there was a lot of excitement, the film ended up disappointing many with a lack of character development and predictability.

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