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MoviePass, MovieCrash

Name: MoviePass, MovieCrash
Director: Muta’Ali
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2024-03-09
Duration: 89 min
Cast: Stacy Spikes, Hamet Watt, Ted Farnsworth, Mitch Lowe, Daymond John

2024 · 1h 29m · Documentary

If you care about how Silicon Valley's hype machine can destroy a genuinely good idea, this is a gripping cautionary tale that deserves your attention tonight. MoviePass was a cultural moment, and watching it implode in real-time through a doc is way more satisfying than reading think pieces about it.

Plot

Exploring the company founding and the implosion of the business by outside investors who took over the company, left it bankrupt and under investigation.

Director: Muta’Ali

Cast: Stacy Spikes, Hamet Watt, Ted Farnsworth, Mitch Lowe, Daymond John

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