There’s no ephemera like business ephemera: Remember Bell Atlantic? Cingular? Palm Pilot? Unlike “Friends” and “Seinfeld,” brands that disappear tend to be forgotten quickly. If you strolled around a campus today asking about the BlackBerry, would anyone even know what you were talking about? Yet as of 2007—in retrospect, a watershed year—it held a commanding position in the smartphone market.
Research in Motion, a great American company, and its flagship gadget are the subject of a sharply observed and memory-refreshing comedy-drama, “BlackBerry.” In illuminating a vital continuing story in our business climate—the way tech geeks and M.B.A. sharks need each other—it merges the faux-documentary look of “The Office” with the frenzied push for innovation of “Silicon Valley.” Along the way, co-writer, director and featured actordid in his wobbly business movie, “Air.
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