Before touchscreens took over every pocket on the planet, a Canadian device briefly ran the table, and this film tracks that rise with equal parts comedy and dread.
What is BlackBerry about?
Two engineers with a working prototype and no idea how to run a company find a partner willing to sell it for them, and together they push a clunky idea into the hands of millions of businesspeople worldwide. What follows is a study in how fast a good idea can outrun the people who built it: manufacturing crunches, boardroom power struggles, and a market that keeps moving even after you have just conquered it. The film treats the device itself almost like a character, tracing its design compromises and its eventual collision with rivals nobody at the company saw coming. It is less interested in villains than in ordinary ambition curdling under pressure.
About the cast
Jay Baruchel and Glenn Howerton anchor the company's founders, with Matt Johnson, Michael Ironside, Rich Sommer, Cary Elwes, Saul Rubinek, and Martin Donovan filling out the boardrooms and engineering floors around them. The ensemble plays the material with a restless, overlapping energy that suits the film's handheld, docu-style camerawork.
Context & significance
Billed across Biography, Comedy, Drama, and Historical categories, the film is a co-production of Canada, Finland, and the United States, set in 2023. Its tone leans closer to workplace comedy than prestige biopic, which sets it apart from most tech-industry dramas built around a single founder's genius.
Watching BlackBerry on Ktime
The film streams on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, so it plays comfortably for viewers who prefer either. The page itself is free to browse; watching requires only a K-Time account login, with the interface available in Farsi throughout, from the menus to the search bar.