The First $20 Million Is Always the Hardest
The First $20 Million Is Always the Hardest is a 2002 film based on the novel of the same name by technology-culture writer Po Bronson. The film stars Adam Garcia and Rosario Dawson. The screenplay was written by Jon Favreau and Gary Tieche.
Plot
Andy Kasper is a marketer who quits his job for something more fulfilling. He gets hired at LaHonda Research Institute, where Francis Benoit assigns him to design the PC99, a $99 PC. He moves into a run-down boarding house where he meets his neighbor Alisa, an artist. He puts together a team of unassigned LaHonda employees. The team includes: Salman Fard, a short, foreign man with an accent who is hacking into CIA files when Andy meets him; Curtis "Tiny" Russell, a massively obese, anthropophobic man; and Darrell, a tall, blond, pierced, scary, germaphobic, deep-voiced man with personal space issues who regularly refers to himself in the third person.
More details
| author | Jon Favreau |
|---|---|
| director | Mick Jackson |
| editor | Don Brochu |
| events | computing |
| genre | comedy |
| keywords | anthropophobia anthropophobic boarding house cd-rom cia computer keyboard computer mouse dream floppy disk floppy drive hack hard drive hologram internet keyboard laser massively obese meet mouse obesity olpc patent rights pc99 pierce ram random access memory virtual reality write |
| musicBy | Marco Beltrami |
| producer | Trevor Albert |
| publisher | 20th Century Fox |
| recordedAt | San Francisco |