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By JENNIFER LANG THE STORY of the rise and fall of a pair of Dot Com millionaires during the Web commerce explo- sion comes to a movie screen in Terrace Monday.

Startup.cam is an ac- claimed American docu- mentary that looks at two friends who had a great idea, got massive financial backing (a reported $60 million) and then it all went horribly wrong,

Tom.Herman and pal Kaleil Tuzman wanted to build a Website that al- lowed people to pay their parking tickets on the [n- ternet.

Like the stampeders who headed north to the Yukon filled with dreams of cashing in on the Gold Rush, the two friends find themselves caught up in the frenzied atmosphere of the monumentally overva-

.lued - and over hyped - ‘Dot: Com market where _dollars outrank common - sense,

The crash was inevit- able, -

But what Startup.com

- Shows in excruciating be-

--hind-the scenes detail is

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Caught in the

HYPE MACHINE: A scene from U.S. documentary

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Startup.com.

The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, October 10, 2001 - B3

American dream

these two buddies over- looked little thing: despite amassing a staff of 200, their brainchild, pov- Works.com, has a funda- mental flaw.

The biggest problem isn’t financing — it’s com- ing up with a software pro- gram that actually works.

The movie is directed

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by Christ Hegedus and Je- hane Nougaim, who com- pleted filming just three weeks before its debut at the Sundance Film Festi- val.

One of the producers worked on the ground- breaking insider dacumen- tary, The War Room, a film about Bill Clinton’s 1992

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