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Pirates of Silicon Valley

starring: Noah Wyle, Joey Slotnick, J.G. Hertzler, Anthony Michael Hall, Wayne PĂ©re
directed by: Martyn Burke

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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9780780650404
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC
ISBN: 0780650409
Label: Turner Home Ent
Manufacturer: Turner Home Ent
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Turner Home Ent
Region Code: 1
Release Date: August 30, 2005
Running Time: 97 minutes
Sales Rank: 8821
Studio: Turner Home Ent
Theatrical Release Date: June 20, 1999



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Description:
The revolution came when we weren't looking. It happened in a garage. In a dorm room. In countless hours of effort, imagining and intrigue. Apple co-founder Steve Jobs and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates were changing the way the world works, lives and communicates. The event-packed saga of the quirky visionaries who jump-started the future unfolds with exhilarating, cutting-edge style in Pirates of Silicon Valley. Noah Wyle (ER) portrays Jobs and Anthony Michael Hall (The Dead Zone) portrays Gates in this chronicle of the fierce and often humorous battle to rule the fledgling personal computer empire. 'The story is almost Shakespearean... it's a tale of lust, greed, ambition, love and hate,' writer/director Martyn Burke reflects. And it's a success story unlike any other.

Amazon.com:
This dramatization of the tangled history of Apple Computer and Microsoft, based on a book by Paul Freiberger and Michael Swaine, hits enough of the right notes to make its failures all the more frustrating. The script follows the entwined paths of Apple's Steve Jobs and Microsoft's Bill Gates with a pointed sense of the cultural divide between the hip, self-absorbed Apple cofounder and the brilliant alpha geek behind Microsoft's eventual software empire, contrasting the Mac's countercultural underpinnings with the PC's more strait-laced origins. But Pirates of Silicon Valley seemingly can't decide whether it wants to be a serious-minded history of these key figures in the personal computer revolution or a trashy wallow in the more ignoble foibles of its principals. As a result, it falls short of exacting history while never achieving the guilty pleasure it might have.

If Gates has become synonymous with corporate conquest at its most striking, Pirates' interest lies more with Jobs, given a nervous energy and flashes of adolescent selfishness by Noah Wyle, who benefits from a reasonable physical resemblance to the Apple chief. Eyewear and a comb-over do nearly as well for Anthony Michael Hall, who also grafts some of Bill Gates's better-known mannerisms onto his performance and renders Gates as a smart if socially maladroit entrepreneur who, like Jobs, provides the ambition and business savvy to exploit his partner's computing talents. There are a few fanciful touches (Ballmer and Wozniak become Greek choruses, addressing the viewer as they comment on the principals), but the story plays out in straightforward fashion. It's tantalizing to consider how the Apple/PC melodrama might have fared with an edgier, more openly satirical script. --Sam Sutherland



Customer Reviews
Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 1 out of 5 stars - Bad luck!
I ordered Pirates of Silicon Valley and received Reservoir Dogs Special Edition instead!

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Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - If your a geek like me then you will love this movie
I loved this movie because it gives the Hollywood treatment to a computer geek fairy tale. Good movie, ... Read More


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - A Fun Little Romp That's Incomplete
The film is a great piece of entertainment, a composite of fact and fiction. Enjoy it for what it is, ... Read More


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - West Coast Wizards
I enjoyed this video story of Steve Jobs and Bill Gates. I am sure there is a lot more to the story of ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Historical Movie!
This is the epic, dorky, funny, and dramatic tale of the rise of Mac & Apple over IBM. I first saw this ... Read More

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