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Director: Austin Chick
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From Time Out New York
A flashy face man (Hartnett) seduces the media with the inflated mystique of his Internet start-up, while his conservative little brother and business partner (Scott) sweats the fact that there’s no there there. Essentially a Cain-and-Abel story wrapped in the hip veneer of dot-com hysteria (post-Y2K and pre-9/11), August tries to bluff its way into success as a deeply felt parable of greed, loyalty and family ties, but ends up being just as fatuous as those burst-bubble paper-tiger corporations it eviscerates.Author: Stephen Garrett
Time Out New York Issue 667: July 10 -July 16, 2008
Cast & crew
Director: Austin Chick
Cast: Josh Hartnett, Adam Scott, Robin Tunney
Duration: 87 mins
US Release: Jul 11 2008
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