August Page #3

Synopsis: Tom and Josh Sterling have a start-up dot-com. It's gone public to initial success. Josh is the technical genius. Tom is the fast-talking and abrasive CEO, in charge of the business side. It's August, 2001, less than a month before they can sell their shares and, perhaps, make lots of money. But the company is running out of cash, its main client is stalling, and share values are falling. For Tom to maintain the firm's appearance, he must find cash: investors could rescue him, but at a high cost of his potential wealth and company control. Tom goes to his brother for a loan. At the same time, an old flame, Sarrah, comes back to the city. Can Tom hold things together, bravura and all?
Genre: Drama
Director(s): Austin Chick
Production: Original Media
 
IMDB:
5.4
Metacritic:
39
Rotten Tomatoes:
36%
R
Year:
2008
88 min
144 Views


I promise you this.

When you do,

once you do, Dyl...

Never mind,

just get it.

Hey.

Sarah?

What are you doing here?

Tom.

Hi.

Hey, Dylan.

HI, Sarah.

When did you

get back in town?

Um, just

a couple of weeks ago.

I'm taking

off, Tom.

Gotta get home. Nice

seeing you again, Sarah.

Welcome back.

Thanks, nice

to see you too.

I was just trying to

keep a couple of shifts.

So you're back then.

Yeah. Classes start

next month. So...

Where are

you living?

Same place.

How's your brother?

Josh is good.

Yeah, he's good.

Good.

Tell him I said hello, okay? Bye.

Who was that?

So what do you

want to do tonight?

Taxi!

Well, good night.

Good night.

Recent

polls show that 55% of Americans

disapprove of President Bush

taking a 30-day working vacation.

If the President

returns on Labor Day,

he will tie a lot of records

held by Richard Nixon.

Ben Affleck today,

for alcoholic.

Nicole Kidman says she refuses to be

bitter about the break up with Tom Cruise.

Josh? I'm

just starving right now.

What are

you doing?

Nothing.

You were supposed

to be unpacking.

I'm totally unpacking. Do

you want to order some food?

Tom, you think about what size

you want me to send

to your parents?

What the f*** are

these still doing here?

Hey, what are

these doing here?

Come on, come on, get them

up? Big ones, little ones,

let's go, they don't do

much good sitting here!

Hey Tom,

Charlie Corwin?

Livemusicchannel. com?

F*** that guy.

So what?

A little one?

No, he's through,

he's finished.

F*** him, don't give him sh*t.

You know what? Give him a

little one, what the f***.

Dylan.

Nice Koosh.

We got

problems, Tom.

Josh is on

his way.

Oh, this

is important.

Well, let's get

started without him.

Josh. So what's

all the excitement?

Snowmark sh*t the bed.

They haven't filed yet, but word is out.

And Unisol

pulled their offer.

So where does

that put us?

The NASDAQ went down

and we're doing worse.

We're below a dollar.

Josh!

So what are

our options?

Cutbacks, but then there's

the whole perception thing.

Rumors, the sniping, the

downward spiral could sink us.

So we're probably looking at

another round of financing.

We got an offer

from Barton Ogilvy.

What's the catch?

Second-round financing

is not easy.

They'll pay market value but

they're gonna want a big piece.

How much do I have to give up?

Percentage, Dylan.

What percentage are we

gonna have to give up?

Like fifty.

So Josh and I, we

start this company,

no, we invent

this company,

we bring you two in,

we give you contracts

which we

don't even have.

Now you want to let some

moneybag f*** us up the ass?

A better time to do this might have been

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Howard A. Rodman

Howard A. Rodman is a screenwriter, author and educator. He is the former President of the Writers Guild of America, West; professor and former chair of the writing division at the USC School of Cinematic Arts; and an artistic director of the Sundance Institute Screenwriting Labs. He is the son of screenwriter Howard Rodman (1920–1985). more…

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