Want

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US Premiere Silicon Valley, 1999. As the millennium nears its end, a new fever sweeps through the country, preying on the universal desire of being your own boss. Start-up businesses pop up everywhere as a generation looks to the Internet as the pathway towards their dreams. Trey Segal, a programmer who inhabits a surreal world of psychotic branding, marketing droids, and his own Internet sex addiction, is one such dreamer—or at least he was. Tired of hopping from one small-time job to the next, Trey resolves to start his own web company. It's not long, however, before he discovers the danger and emptiness of his new success and soon finds his family ties as well as his own life threatened. With tough-minded insight and sly humor, Michael Wohl's Want takes an invigorating look at the nature of success through the experiences of all-too-human characters. Using a wide variety of visual styles, the film blends their dreams of overnight wealth with their glitzy environment, leading to startlingly cathartic moments. - Fernando F. Croce