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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.
Recent Reviews
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MCT:November 17, 2008It was a good concept but poor execution just like the company in the movie - LandShark. I just wasn't pulled into the story or characters. Also music at some parts made it hard to understand the dialogue. I was hoping and wishing it could been better.
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MCT:November 10, 2008You know when someone says that was the worst movie ever made and you think to yourself Like anybody can ever know that. Well they can. And its called August.
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MCT:November 10, 2008
From the get go you are totally lost, i was kinda holding on to the fact the Hartnett was playing the jerk, selfiish playboy so I kept watching. To much going on in the movie with all his other problems but none of them are ever resolved, every bit of this movie was left open-ended. I kinda felt like I was reading a cliff's notes version of the flick. The characters were all choppy and had the depth of a puddle. I wanna call Austin Chick and ask him if he can refund 90 minutes of me and my girlfriends life, well only about 20 of hers she fell asleep.
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MCT:November 4, 2008
There was nothing memorable about this movie. The actors played their roles decently. The camera work is pretty good. The news events during some scenes were nostalgic. Really, I don't know if I didn't like this film or liked it. The love interst was unnecessary for the film.
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MCT:October 29, 2008I don't know what exactly people saw in this movie, but I totally missed it. The whole movie is about the struggle to keep the company run by the original founders. There is struggle and anger and depression and in the end he loses the company anyway. What is that about? I am not happy with this movie at all.
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MCT:October 18, 2008
It was alright,
guess i shouldnt have expected this to be that great. Its the regular stock-market movie. I just dont get what the hells with the fake-tatts, that didnt make sense.
I guess it wasnt all that great.
But it was fine. The regular amateur film.
Got a bit boring, and a tad slow. -
MCT:October 3, 2008MMMM JOSH HUBBA HUBBA
OWNS THIS MOVIE , HOWEVER I WAS A WEE BIT DISSAPPOINTED HE USHALLY DOES WAY BETTER MOVIES HMM WTF IS UP WIFF HIS ASS LOL -
MCT:September 23, 2008I found this, maybe being a film school student, very much like a film school type film. A meaningful story and good decent camera-work. Overall, it is nice personally as I felt for the character, but I think it will have difficulty reaching out to those who have never been in this situation and like film school students, this feels like a film that explores that territory with meaning but not putting it out, making a film with a language that is tough as it is not been spoken before, a new language that few if anyone might want to start to pick-up. Damn it, I'm just rambling.
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MCT:September 15, 2008
Uhm, ew. Definitely one of the worst films I have ever seen! I got suckered into this shitfest because of Bowie, whose role lasted a whopping forty seven seconds. [P.S. Josh Hartnett is so tough with his stick-on tattoos! REBEL!]
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MCT:September 7, 2008
As pre-9/11 dot-com hotshot Tom Sterling (Josh Hartnett), he's seen his parents and tech wonk brother treating him with contempt, the girl he's pining for giving him the brush-off, and his startup Internet company blowing up in his face.
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MCT:August 22, 2008a realistic take on the hostile take over of a company built by two brothers. I like the portrayal of the relationships and the struggle to keep the company afloat. Good role for Josh Hartnett.
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MCT:August 12, 2008unbelievably boring,slow and uninteresting,I've just wasted 90 min for a story that could be told in 30 sec.
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MCT:July 25, 2008
August has a good concept, that's one of the few good things I could say about it. Two brothers trying to keep their company afloat on Wall Street a month before 9/11. It could've proved to be a disturbing and excellent drama thats climax would shock and completely take off guard, and while it had that potential, it was completely waisted. A good concept is what brings many films into production, the execution of it can completely ruin it or make it more than it ever was. In this case with August, the director took the script and well, didn't do much with it. Despite a specific highlight that this film has, it's a waist for one BIG reason, it's completely boring.
Perhaps completely boring is an understatement, a huge understatement. This movie is like a twinky without the cream filling, Dean Martin without Jerry Louis, a movie with nothing to call it great. I've come to enjoy dramas these days that are enjoyable to watch, that don't make you wish you were watching Bunny Town instead, and you're not even high when watching Bunny Town. It's simply not entertaining. We're introduced to an interesting point that year, that singer person died in that plane crash, Ben Affleck was checking into rehab, which was kind of funny, because Josh Hartnett's character is watching that story on TV and in both Hartnett and Affleck starred in Pearl Harbor together that year. And of course we're a month away from a major low point in American history, that affected the entire world in one way or another. So why does this film fall flat on it's face when it has so much to back it up. Well, let's start off with the storyline. There's simply nothing to it, nothing that makes as believe in these so-called characters or even believe this was a tense month for the corporate business peoples and such, with no mention or event that leads to what should have been the much needed climax it needed, 9/11. Instead, we got a few characters that lead boring lives and their troubles never fascinated me. Some conflict here and there that never seems to be concluded and a love story that's got as much power to it as the chemistry between Kate Hudson and Matthew M. in Fool's Gold and if you don't know what that means, it's pretty lame. And a bunch of random business meetings are thrown around to just talk about the company issues and that's pretty much what every conversation in the film is about, business conflicts and what happens when you have them. And I find it extremely strange that David Bowie's in this film and his scene is very brief. Why would he waist his time here, I do not know, all I know is that a lot of talent was waisted here.
Speaking of talent, we do have a great performance here. I didn't consider Josh Hartnett an actual actor until I saw this film, but I still don't consider him the guy that picks the best roles. Black Hawk Down is the probably the best he's done when in comes to choice, he didn't have to talk much in that one. Poor choice aside, Hartnett does an excellent job making a boring character more interesting than the rest. He really puts his heart into it, which is admirable, but he could've saved the full reveal of his actual talent for something that deserved it, or a movie that's popular in the public eye. But, I guess it wasn't meant to be. August contains some other good acts, but nothing special. I didn't expect Adam Scott to do such a great job,
all the things I've seen him in were lame. I'm not saying this role is much better, but it beats other things he's done. Man it bugs me that all of this talent is waisted in this movie.
I also would like to comment about the ending, which is horrible. You'd expect something intense to happen when you're foundation is upon 9/11, but it never goes anywhere and 9/11 isn't even mentioned and therefor is anti-climactic, which will drive viewers crazy after having to wait that entire time for something to happen, only to come to something pointless and unsatisfying.
And so, August isn't that well known for a reason, it kills it's audience with boredom. Drama needs to be captivating and at least entertaining, and will leave you with something to feel for it. August brings the opposite of all those things and needed to take the concept it was born from and change it to an actual film, not a bunch of business meetings and a stupid love story put together. None of it works and it achieves boredom beyond belief and it's easily forgettable. I'm so bored writing about this I'm practically got me head down on the keyBORED. Ha ha, I'm so clever. -
MCT:July 5, 2008
Terrible film that bored the shit out of me. I was looking forward to seeing Josh Hartnett in his latest film but in my opinion, this was a complete disaster, and yet another low point of his career. His performance was weak and far from strong enough to carry the film. He was meant to be the leading character but it was hard to listen to anything he had to say. The character itself was uninteresting. The rest of the performances were forgettable. The plot was boring and didn't even seem to have a point. Not a film I would recommend but I would be interested to see what other people would think about it.
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MCT:July 4, 2008
...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. CastActors & Cast for August (2007)
Naomie Harris ,Josh Hartnett ,Adam Scott, Directed by: Austin Chick -
MCT:July 4, 2008
Josh Hartnett leads a pretty cool cast, which includes Rip Torn and David Bowie, just to name a few. Josh is definitely one of the best young actors of his generation. Good script, good direction. Honest, exciting and realistic. That's a hell of a good combination.
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MCT:June 21, 2008
Two brothers trying to keep their start-up company afloat on Wall Street during August 2001, a month before the 9/11 terrorist attacks. A very specific period piece about dot com company and technology (in a general way). A bit of a downer.
Adam Scott plays the technical brother while Josh Harnett plays the hotshot salesman and the man in charge.
Josh Hartnett, imo, is a good actor. He performance is good, again, playing a man on the edge, a man with a front, and a inner life that is vulnerable, confused, angry, lonely, sad.
Robin Tunney & Andre Royo play CFO & COO and do a fine job.
Rip Torn has an average role as the boys' father.
David Bowie has a nice, short, cameo at the end.
Naomie Harris, ex/girlfriend, whom I like, was okay but she could not save this, even though she gave a good performance.
Original Music by Nathan Larson was okay. It reminded me a little of Drunk Punch Love so that is a plus.
Overall, I think the review on IMDB is corect: dull
