Rating: NR
Genre:
Drama
Release Date: 08/30/2005
SubTitles: English/Espanol
Dubbed: English/Espanol
Sound: DDS2.0
Run Time: 97 Minutes
Flags: Adult Situations
Distributor/Studio: Warner Home Video
This tech-world
biopic traces the fortunes of personal-computer companies Apple and Microsoft from their obscure dorm-room and backyard origins to their very public battle for corporate supremacy. Writer/director
Martyn Burke follows the parallel lives of Microsoft founder
Bill Gates (
Anthony Michael Hall) and Apple co-founders
Steve Jobs (
Noah Wyle) and
Steve Wozniak (
Joey Slotnick) -- the former a crafty Harvard dropout, the latter a pair of hippies with jobs at Hewlett-Packard and a yen to sell miniature versions of corporate mainframes to small businesses and at-home enthusiasts. Much like the personal-computer industry itself, the action starts with Apple then gradually shifts to Microsoft. The former plot thread recounts how
Jobs and
Wozniak "borrowed" key concepts from a Xerox computer lab, eked out their success as countercultural businessmen, and finally fell out with one another over the pressure of success. The latter thread focuses on the way
Gates learned from, then surpassed, the brains behind Apple and turned his company into the global powerhouse that it is today. Based on
Paul Freiberger and
Michael Swaine's
Fire in the Valley: The Making of the Personal Computer, the film actually focuses only on that book's final chapters. Produced for cable channel
TNT,
Pirates of Silicon Valley debuted June 18, 1999.
~ Brian J. Dillard, All Movie Guide
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