Jobs (2013)

The story of Steve Jobs' ascension from college dropout into one of the most revered creative entrepreneurs of the 20th century.

Director:

Joshua Michael Stern

Writer:

Matt Whiteley

Stars:

Ashton Kutcher, Dermot Mulroney, Josh Gad

2 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Ashton Kutcher	...	Steve Jobs
Dermot Mulroney	...	Mike Markkula
Josh Gad	...	Steve Wozniak
Lukas Haas	...	Daniel Kottke
Matthew Modine	...	John Sculley
J.K. Simmons	...	Arthur Rock
Lesley Ann Warren	...	Clara Jobs
Ron Eldard	...	Rod Holt
Ahna O'Reilly	...	Chris-Ann Brennan
Victor Rasuk	...	Bill Fernandez
John Getz	...	Paul Jobs
Kevin Dunn	...	Gil Amelio
James Woods	...	Jack Dudman
Nelson Franklin	...	Bill Atkinson
Eddie Hassell	...	Chris Espinosa

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 ...

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Plot Keywords:

male objectification | barefoot male | bare feet on table | feet on table | reference to steve jobs | 

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Taglines:

Some see what's possible, others change what's possible.

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Genres:

Biography | Drama

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated PG-13 for some drug content and brief strong language

Details

Official Sites:

Official Facebook Official site [Japan]

Country:

USA Switzerland

Language:

English

Release Date:

16 August 2013 (USA)

Also Known As:

Jobs: Get Inspired

Filming Locations:

Los Angeles, California, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$12,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend USA:

$6,713,900, 18 August 2013, Wide Release

Gross USA:

$16,117,443, 29 September 2013

Company Credits

Production Co:

Open Road Films (II), Five Star Institute, IF Entertainment

Technical Specs

Runtime:

128 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Some of the scenes that take place on the Reed College campus were actually shot at UCLA.

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Goofs

When Jobs visits a computer store in 1976 to arrange to sell first Apple computer, several IBM monitors on the shelf did not appear on the market until the IBM PC several years later.

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Quotes

Jonathan Ive: Steve, we're glad you're back.
Steve Jobs: I'm not back.
Steve Jobs: [as he leaves] Yet...

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Connections

Features Breakout (1976)

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Soundtracks

Scarborough Aire
Performed by Dylan McDonald, Cassidy Cooper
Written by Mason Cooper, Jerry Deaton, Cassidy Cooper, Dylan McDonald

User Reviews

Not what the audience wanted, but still an amazing movie

Apple is currently the highest net worth company in the world and to own any of the Apple gadgets has become a status symbol. Steve Jobs is an idol, a revolutionary and an inspiration to the millions of people who want to change the world. After his death, his legendary status grew even more (as it always does with passed away celebrities), so it is perfectly reasonable that there were high expectations for this movie. People were expecting a grand masterpiece of epic proportions about a man who many want to relate to and who many want to be.

Unfortunately, the movie took a slightly different turn and the result of this can be seen on the IMDb movie score. This movie is not an epic journey of a strange protégé who eventually achieved everything there was to achieve and was carried on the arms of a cheering crowd at the end, followed by the end credits. NO! This is a movie about Jobs - about his personality, about his decisions, about his victories and about his failures. It is a cruel representation of what you have to go through in this world to achieve the status that he now has.

It's a movie about a troubled hipster who wanted to learn and to achieve something, but hated the system into which the young are thrown into. He dropped out of College but still attended some classes, he got into fights at work because he would yell at his coworkers that they were not doing their job, he took other peoples ideas, remade them into a story and sold them with his speeches and he wanted all. He was stubborn, he always wanted the impossible and here comes the part that made him a legend: he always got the impossible out of people.

Eventually he was driven from his company, he made bad calls, bad decisions, bad products, but later came back and dominated the computer scene again. He probably had more bad moments than good, but it's the good ones that count...and it's the good ones that changed the world.

The people didn't get what they wanted...they didn't get a people's hero nor the man that was always right. And no one wants to see a movie about a man who nobody liked half of the movie...but it is how he was and you have to accept that.

Ashton Kutcher's portrayal was also quite good and it seems that all the comedy movies and series that he has done have earned him a title of a bad actor, so you will hear a lot people saying this was a miss cast. Don't believe this people: go see the movie and make up your own mind.

So don't be discouraged by the low IMDb ranking and see this movie with expectations of a great movie about a man who was an inventor, a visionary, a man who changed the world, but was still only that: a man, nothing more, nothing less.

P.s. Don't expect to see any modern products in this movie. At the beginning, you will only briefly get to see the first generation Ipod, while other products are all the ones from the era before 1996. The movie actually ends in 1996, so many are disappointed that the movie did not show the era of Ipod's, Ipad's, Iphone's and Macbook's.