The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.

Blistering performances.

I was unable to watch the documentary, but I would still like to comment on Kozmo.com. My husband worked for the company based in Washington, DC and they did discriminate. They would only deliver in certain areas, preferably the upper class neighborhoods. Also they treated their employees like dodo. They overworked them and in return instead of pay raises and bonuses they gave them stock in the company. Whoop Dido a company that went belly up a year later......Kozmo was a just not well put together. Dot com business really need to be thought out. I believe it was rushed and that is why the downfall was so hard. It put a lot of people out of work at a really bad time.

As a veteran of several dot-com companies, watching this film was like watching home movies. Other vets of that era and I watched this film with sick fascination, seeing events and situations that we ourselves had endured. This film perfectly captures the thoughtlessness, greed, and insanity of those years. Unlike the other reviewer, I thought the ending perfectly captured the era: even when it was obvious that it was over, the jokers that led us down the garden path in the first place refused to acknowledge it. This film serves well as a documentary of one of the most spectacular dot-bombs but it serves even better as proof to those that lived through it that they are not alone.

This film gets close to what was happening with New York internet startups 1999-2001. The chaos, the parties, the IPOs, the overall feel of possibility (at least in 1999).The director made a great choice by featuring Joseph Park, who shows the energy, dedication, and naivete of an entrepreneur in charge of a Big Idea and a (onetime) Big Company.Startup.com got more word-of-mouth, but this is a much more satisfying film, showing and explaining the company up-and-down and some key issues in Kozmo's life. For those disappointed with the lack of anything internet-related in the startup.com story, this film hits the mark.(sort-of-spoiler below)The music is distracting, and I wish the movie was a bit longer and more fleshed-out, but overall it's a great documentary, with a party scene that took me back - I wasn't at that party, but I was at plenty others like it...

e-Dreams is a real-life view of Kozmo.com, a startup Internet company during the final heyday of the net IPO's. Kozmo followed the traditional dot-com business plan of raise financing, raise more financing, then IPO, only the market crash tanked their IPO, leaving them unable to function after burning of $280 million of investment funds. Of all of the various businesses created during that craze, few can approach the absolutely ludicrous level of stupidity the Kozmo business plan (if it can be called that) represented. One analyst computed that Kozmo would have to grow large enough to hire virtually the entire popular of the United States in order to make a profit that justified the target stock price. I really believe Wonsuk Chin, the director, recognized that and planned to show the rise and fall from the beginning. As an inside view of Kozmo, the film is sometimes fascinating, showing how financing ideas developed, and often enlightening, demonstrating stupidities like failing to pay the utility bill or not having paychecks ready on time. It is also fascinating in its complete omission of any details about running the company. The lack of a business plan is evidenced in every day's operation. But, it also has long periods of absolute boredom. We see lots of plane travel that adds nothing to the narrative and near the end of the movie there is a long monologue by Joseph Park that seems to go on forever. (Spoiler here, though most everyone knows how this ends, anyway) But, what I did not like about this film is that the ending was decidedly unsatisfying. As a critic at the time of the egregious waste in the Internet era, I wanted to see them close the doors and recognize that their idea was a failure. Instead, we are cut short at the departure of Joseph Park, who leaves feeling that the only thing he did wrong was not choosing the right financing model. The ultimate climax of the movie, the failure of Kozmo.com, is left to footnotes at the end. You get the impression that these are criminals who get away with it, and that's just not the point of the film.