August

“Comes just before the fall”

The numbers at Landshark, the dot-com company built by brothers Tom (Josh Hartnett) and Joshua Sterling (Adam Scott), have stopped adding up, and neither of them will say so aloud. Austin Chick sets the story in August 2001, with the stock market sliding and the company needing money it may not get. If they can't find it in the next few weeks, everything they've made is gone.