RIM ultimately is able to make a convincing case for the BlackBerry smartphoone. Things change for the pair with one meeting, which results in the aggressive businessman Jim Balsillie (Howerton) joining the company, making his first task to essentially whip RIM into shape. Lazaridis has this very sort of socially awkward, bland but tech-smart personality, while Fregin is more chaotic, wearing a sweat band around his head and quirky graphic t-shirts. What is 'BlackBerry' about?Īs the move chronicles, in 1996 Mike Lazaridis (played by Baruchel in the movie) and Douglas Fregin (Johnson) were operating RIM from a small office in Waterloo, Ont., basically just trying to keep their company afloat. The rise and fall of Research in Motion's (RIM) BlackBerry is one of the most infamous made-in-Canada stories, and it's gotten a phenomenal, riveting and just downright entertaining movie treatment with Matt Johnson's film BlackBerry (now in theatres), starring Johnson, Jay Baruchel and Glenn Howerton.
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