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Every epochal moment in Pirates of Silicon Valley (June 20, 8 p.m. E.T.), TNT's smart new movie about the birth of the PC industry, comes complete with a similar backdoor irony. Pirates' writer-director Martyn Burke (who co-wrote HBO's caustic The Pentagon Wars) plants his story in...
Pirates tracks the rivalry between twin iconic weirdos: Jobs and Gates, temperamental opposites who shadow each other from their early days on the tech-conference fringe to the top of the NASDAQ charts. But the movie's focus is primarily on the turbulent Jobs, an adopted child who spends his...
Although the showier role belongs to Wyle, who ably trades the blue-blood reserve of ER's Carter for Jobs' loose-limbed swagger, the movie's secret weapon is Anthony Michael Hall, whose work here will startle viewers who recall only the nerdy teen who kept hitting on Molly Ringwald...
He makes the most of it. The film leaves Gates' personal story in the background, but Hall fleshes out the character by nailing the Microsoft chairman in all his scary intensity, from the whining, reedy voice to the shrunken-tortoise posture, body collapsed in on itself as if conserving all...
But the most entertaining thing about Pirates is the fact that--pro forma statements about inaccuracies from both camps aside--the corporate soap-opera events it recounts went down largely as Burke presents them: Jobs really did launch Apple in his parents' garage; his team really did steal the Macintosh...