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<em>BlackBerry</em> Is a New Kind of Business Biopic

Even more enthralling than the story of a successful company is the story of one that crashed and burned.
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The “business biopic” is Hollywood’s subgenre du jour, a way to sneak dramas for grown-ups into theaters by building them around brand-name products that everyone recognizes. Want to see a movie where character actors actually get to have whole conversations without a caped hero bursting through a wall? Well, here’s the origin story of or a . These films are usually about famed pioneers such as and. instead tells the tale of

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