August Page #4

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


four months ago, Dyl. Before July!

Things have changed.

So we lose

half our company.

We get greeked up the ass

by Barton-f***ing-Ogilvy?

This is no time

to be proud, Tom.

That's not the play. That's

not the way we're gonna do it.

I'll cash-hold

the company myself.

You're leveraged

to the hilt.

I'll find the

f***ing money.

You're broke, Tom.

Get the f*** out

of my office, Dyl!

I just want to talk,

you know, some place

away from the office.

Yeah.

Can I get

the next ball?

Take the left

flipper, come on.

There's some sh*t's

been going down,

it's complicated but I've been

thinking about your future.

Oh, how nice for me.

You've always

been smarter than me.

That's not what's

at issue here.

"At issue?" Are we at a court of law?

Why are you

telling me this?

I want to let

you in on this.

It's an opportunity, it's,

not a Landshark thing,

it's a brothers thing,

a Tom and Josh thing.

What do you

want from me?

You've always been

smarter than me.

The squirrel and

the whatever, you,

you always were

prudent who saved...

Tom, what

do you want?

Just some

working capital.

How much "just

some working capital?"

Enough to get us through the lockup,

to get us to

the other side.

You want me to put myself

on the hook personally?

Josh!

When you said thinking

about your future,

I should've known. When Tom says

"thinking about your future. "

that means "What can I

screw you out of today?"

Yeah.

You got me

all wrong, man.

Oh, yeah, I don't think so.

Know what? You're a great designer, man.

But this is business,

this is money.

You remember, when it

was just me and you

and we were moving

into our first place?

Why do you always

bring this up?

And I said we were gonna

need 15 phone lines?

And you laughed. And

you went down to NYNEX

and they said it was gonna

cost 110 dollars a line

plus deposit, plus it

was gonna take five weeks?

Please, why do you

always tell this story?

And you were

gonna pay it!

I went down there and they installed

them the next day and for free!

Wow!

I know money, man! And

maybe the NASDAQ is up,

maybe the NASDAQ

is down,

but if we could just make

it from here to there,

if we could just make it through

this lockup, these next few weeks,

there's a f***ing pile of

money, man. Just waiting for us.

A mountain of it and we're gonna eat it.

When we're around everybody

else, I got a front.

But with you, I can tell

you when I'm in trouble.

We're in trouble, and

you gotta believe me

when I say that

we're in trouble.

Now we can make

it through this but...

Ineed your help.

You gotta trust me.

Uhh...

Oh, okay.

I mean...

You know what? Just because I'm smart

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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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