Startup.Com
Directors Chris Hegedus (The War Room) and Jehane  Noujaim couldn't have imagined the drama that awaited when they began  documenting the creation of the pioneering e-commerce site  govWorks.com. For over a year they followed the company, the brainchild  of childhood-friends-turned-business-partners software geek and doting  single dad Tom Herman, and ambitious young  business-school-grad-turned-company-CEO Kaleil Isaza Tuzman. During the  rise of the Internet investment frenzy and the subsequent crash of the  dot-economy, the cameras remain keyed into the human dynamic: the  lifestyle compromises, the personal sacrifices, and the clash of  philosophies and personalities that ultimately tear boyhood buddies Tom  and Kaleil apart...almost.Startup.com's portrait of the  cutthroat nature of American business culture and the choices one makes  (or doesn't) to succeed poses the one question most documentaries  ignore: Is it worth it?--Sean Axmaker