August

August (2008) is an American drama you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Austin Chick and starring Josh Hartnett, Adam Scott, and David Bowie, set in the final weeks of the dot-com collapse.

The month is August 2001. Brothers Tom and Josh are trying to keep their New York tech startup from going under — investors are pulling out, the office burns cash, and neither of them wants to be the one to say it's finished. Robin Tunney, Naomi Harris, and Rip Torn fill out a story about a generation that bet everything on an idea and is watching the odds shift in real time.

The film works because the audience knows what the characters don't: September is coming. Hartnett plays a man too deep in the wreckage to see it. The tagline says August comes just before the fall — and it means both things at once. Stream August (2008) online on iFILM.