It s a mild surprise when a company that sent them off earlier with harsh, condescending comments ends up investing in govWorks later. By August, govWorks has 30 employees. There are 70 in October, and 120 by January 2000. President Clinton introduces him and guffaws loudly and long at one of Kaleil s cracks. A fictional screenplay couldn t have improved on what real life handed the filmmakers.
Partners get cold feet and have to be bought out.
Top people get squeezed out and start rattling their lawyers. Producer Pennebaker is well known for his 1967 Dylan film, Don t Look Back , as well as Monterey Pop , Jimi Plays Monterey , and The War Room . Mostly, they just watch people interact, whether it s a sales meeting, a New Hampshire retreat, or Kaleil cuddling with a girl on his bed while talking to a disgruntled staffer by speakerphone. Yet the tale is compelling not as a business tale, but a human one. The two partners go through all the pain of a divorce and shaky reconciliation in the ashes of their dream then move on.