Overview:
Two mismatched entrepreneurs – egghead innovator Mike Lazaridis and cut-throat businessman Jim Balsillie – joined forces in an endeavour that was to become a worldwide hit in little more than a decade. The story of the meteoric rise and catastrophic demise of the world's first smartphone.| Status: | Released (2023-02-13) |
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| Awards: | 27 wins & 30 nominations |
| BoxOffice: | $1,476,597 |
| Screen: | Jacquie McNish, Sean Silcoff, Matt Johnson |
| Productions: | Zapruder Films, Rhombus Media, IPR.VC, Elevation Pictures |
| Production Countries: | Canada, Finland |
| Spoken Languages: | English |
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Casts
- 449: Jay Baruchel - Mike Lazaridis
- 77870: Glenn Howerton - Jim Balsillie
- 1144092: Matt Johnson - Doug Fregin
- 10581: Rich Sommer - Paul Stanos
- 11086: Michael Ironside - Charles Purdy
- 2130: Cary Elwes - Carl Yankowski
- 42993: Martin Donovan - Rick Brock
Crews
- 4583: Niv Fichman - Producer - Production
- 1500501: Fraser Ash - Producer - Production
- 1500500: Kevin Krikst - Producer - Production
- 1319305: Matthew Miller - Producer - Production
- 1144092: Matt Johnson - Director - Directing
- 1144092: Matt Johnson - Writer - Writing
- 1319305: Matthew Miller - Writer - Writing
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Reviews
CinemaSerf
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Matt Johnson's rather John McEnroe-esque "Doug" rather stole this tale of what was literally a tech-tonic shift in how we used our mobile phones. He, together with his boss Mike (Jay Baruchel), has been working with a small team of geeks to develop a mobile word processor that can se ....
Continue reading ->Louisa Moore - Screen Zealots
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“Blackberry” is a film about the failure and spectacular collapse of the world’s first smart phone. Adapting Jacquie McNish and Sean Silcoff’s book “Losing the Signal: The Untold Story Behind the Extraordinary Rise and Spectacular Fall of BlackBerry” for the screen, director Matt Joh ....
Continue reading ->kisaligol
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The script seems to be written mostly from the perspective of Jim Balsillie, a businessman that was co-CEO of Blackberry, while engineers take a backseat. This follows the general tendency in film to glorify businessmen, treating the people who actually conceptualize, design and impl ....
Continue reading ->MarciaClarke
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I kept hearing people say this movie was actually not bad for a movie about BalckBerry, and you know what, they were right! Glenn Howerton plays an incredibly entertaining psycho as always. Jay Baruchel does the befuddled muppet thing with aplomb. And then the doofus sidekick guy who ....
Continue reading ->badelf
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In one sense, this is a comedic action film. In another sense, it's a biopic of a lying, cheating, ruthless, tech businessman of a slightly less rank than Bezos, Zuckerberg and the "Don't be Evil" Page/Brin team. Overall, it's brilliantly cast and paced. It moves along at the perf ....
Continue reading ->Brent Marchant
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With the release of such innovative communications products as the Apple and Android smartphones, questions began to circulate about the future viability of onetime market leader BlackBerry, a line of devices that subsequently went into rapid decline. Ironically, that real-life busin ....
Continue reading ->rsanek
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The downfall part is a bit sudden as compared to the first 2/3 of the film, but still a very fun watch.
Continue reading ->r96sk
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Thoroughly fascinating to watch this unfold. <em>'BlackBerry'</em> reminded me a lot of fellow 2023 flick <em>'Air'</em>, two movies that were in fact released within months of each other interestingly. Both are great watches, with this being one I particularly enjoyed. It's super ....
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