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BlackBerry (2023)

R02/13/2023Comedy, Drama2h

Work hard. Fail hard.

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.

Top Billed Cast

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    Jay Baruchel

    Mike Lazaridis

  2. Cast 1

    Glenn Howerton

    Jim Balsillie

  3. Cast 1

    Matt Johnson

    Doug Fregin

  4. Cast 1

    Rich Sommer

    Paul Stanos

  5. Cast 1

    Michael Ironside

    Charles Purdy

  6. Cast 1

    Cary Elwes

    Carl Yankowski

  7. Cast 1

    Martin Donovan

    Rick Brock

  8. Cast 1

    Michelle Giroux

    Dara Frankel

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    Saul Rubinek

    John Woodman

“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 Johnson creates an entertaining look at contemporary history with his tale of the rise and fall of a revolutionary gadget that changed the world forever. In this unconventional story of modern business failure at the hands of fraud and greed, the film tells the history of Mike Lazaridis (Jay Baruchel) and Jim Balsi...