Jobs (2013)

Release date: 2013-09-27
Country: USA|Switzerland
Language: English
Director: Joshua Michael Stern
Production Co: Open Road Films (II), Five Star Institute, IF Entertainment
Genre: Biography, Drama
Rating: 5.9/10
Length: 2h 8min

Storyline

The film opens in 2001 with a middle-aged Steve Jobs (Ashton Kutcher) introducing the iPod at an Apple Town Hall meeting.[6] It then flashes back to Reed College in 1974. Jobs had already dropped out due to the high expense of tuition, but was still attending classes with the approval of Dean Jack Dudman (James Woods) who took him under his wing. Jobs is particularly interested in a course on calligraphy. He meets up with his friend Daniel Kottke (Lukas Haas) who is excited to see that Jobs is holding a copy of Be Here Now by Baba Ram Dass. Influenced by this book and his experiences with LSD, Jobs and Kottke spend time in India. Two years later, Jobs is back in Los Altos, California living at home with his adoptive parents Paul (John Getz) and Clara (Lesley Ann Warren). He is working for Atari and develops a partnership with his friend Steve Wozniak (Josh Gad) after he sees that Wozniak has built a personal computer (the Apple I). They name their new company Apple Computer, though ...

Plot Keywords

video game, year 2001, ipod, reference to the beatles, reference to bob dylan, nerd, year 1976, india, adoptive father adopted son relationship, confrontation, student, ambition, father daughter relationship, bare chested male, screaming, harmonica, barefoot male, male objectification, business executive, technology

Short Review

It's a film whose plea to the audience resembles Jobs' appeal to the crowd in that iPod-unveiling scene: "Believe this is important and exciting," it asks, "because I say so."