BLACKBERRY

Showtimes May 19 - 25:

“Frantic, irreverent and endearingly scrappy” (Peter Debruge, Variety), this “true story” captures the the meteoric rise & catastrophic fall of the world’s first smartphone company.

Adapted from Jacquie McNish and Sean Silcoff’s book, Losing the Signal, BlackBerry is a whirlwind ride through the Silicon Valley of the early 2000s. At this time when dreams were big and companies attracted talent with play-at-work vibes, two mismatched entrepreneurs (innovator Mike Lazaridis and businessman Jim Balsillie) joined forces and made a product that became a worldwide hit. Inventing and marketing the world’s original mobile phone, the duo changed the way the world communicated in little more than a decade. But as their device was rising to new peaks, their company was losing its way, and eventually one of the most successful ventures in the history of the tech and business world would simply fall apart. With a soundtrack and visual style that capture the edge, energy, and hubris of the era, BlackBerry is a thoroughly entertaining portrait of an enterprise that flew a little too close to the sun.

(US / 2023 / Directed by Matt Johnson)
R / 2 hrs