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Halt and Catch Fire (2014)
38K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Set in the early 1980s, and about a fictional visionary, an engineer and a prodigy whose innovations confronts the corporate behemoths of the time. Their personal and professional partnership will be challenged by greed and ego while charting the changing culture in Texas' Silicon Prairie.
Style:
clever, realistic, serious, captivating, melancholic, retro, emotional, dramatic, crying, cerebral ...
Audience:
date night, family friendly
Plot:
computer, programmer, technology, gay interest, inventions and discoveries, computers and web, existentialism, computer system, businessman, identity crisis, secret past, marriage, family relations, hacker, supportive spouse, workplace situations, geek, rivalry, partner, ego clash, dishonesty, relationship vs career, financial problem, workplace intrigue, blind ambition ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, contemporary
Place:
texas, dallas texas, syria, usa
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Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
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Country: UK, Japan, USA
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