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    Fiber-Optic Farce 'The Hummingbird Project' Clips Its Own Wings

    Two cousins (Jessie Eisenberg and Alexander Skarsgård) hatch a scheme to speed financial trading with a new fiber-optic cable in this " likably cheeky but rambling and overstuffed" comedy.
    by Ella Taylor Mar 14, 2019 2 minutes
    Vincent (Jesse Eisenberg) and Anton (Alexander Skarsgård) are financial traders trying to strike it rich in <em>The Hummingbird Project. </em>

    Remember Jesse Eisenberg in The Social Network as the callow Harvard undergrad who cooked up a little thingie called Facebook because his girlfriend dumped him? Please welcome back both actor and, more or less, character in The Hummingbird Project, a likably cheeky but rambling and overstuffed hedge-fund romp by Canadian writer-director Kim Nguyen.

    Representing the legions of tech-billionaire wannabes who toil unsung below the radar,

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