10 July 2008 2:06 PM, PDT | From avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news
Ah, the halcyon days of 2001. The tragic death of Aaliyah shocked a nation, a boozy Ben Affleck did a stint in rehab, and a peerless mangler of the English language named George W. Bush had just started bumbling his way into the history books. Austin Chick's August takes audiences on a magic carpet ride back to that bygone age, but the era it's obsessed with began at the tail end of the previous millennium. August is a brooding, boring indie drama about the death of the culture-wide hallucination that was the dot-com bubble, and the moment when countless dot-com millionaires on paper became real-life paupers. Sporting a deeply unflattering pubic-hair mustache/tiny-goatee combo, Josh Hartnett stars as a cocky online entrepreneur whose world is collapsing as one impractical new venture after another dies an unmourned death. Hartnett is desperate to stay afloat in a toxic business environment, but his...
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