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3	''Jobs'' is a 2013 {{Biopic}} about the life of Creator/SteveJobs, founder of Apple Computers, directed by Joshua Michael Stern and starring Creator/AshtonKutcher as Jobs and Creator/JoshGad as Apple's co-founder Steve Wozniak. The supporting cast includes Creator/DermotMulroney, Creator/LukasHaas, Creator/JKSimmons, Creator/LesleyAnnWarren, Creator/RonEldard, Creator/AhnaOReilly, Creator/JohnGetz, Creator/JamesWoods, and Creator/MatthewModine.
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5	The film tells the story of Jobs' life from when he was a college student in 1974, to the founding and growth of Apple Computers, to Jobs' involuntary departure from Apple, to his return to Apple in the 1990s.
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7	Compare ''Film/PiratesOfSiliconValley'', another film about the early days of Steve Jobs and Apple--as well as Bill Gates and Microsoft.
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9	Another biopic, ''Film/SteveJobs'', based on his biography of the same name, was released in 2015. It is directed by Creator/DannyBoyle, written by Creator/AaronSorkin and stars Creator/MichaelFassbender in the lead role (after a [[Creator/LeonardoDicaprio few]] [[Creator/ChristianBale actors]] dropped out) and Creator/SethRogen as Steve Wozniak.
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14	* AdaptedOut: Much like ''Film/PiratesOfSiliconValley'', Apple's other co-founder Ronald Wayne is never mentioned. However, the film includes a nod to him with a brief appearance of the Apple I manual which he wrote and designed the Apple logo on the cover.
15	* BestServedCold: Mike Markkula (Dermot Mulroney), Jobs' old friend and Apple's first investor, does not support Jobs when the Apple board boots him out of the company in the '80s ([[ILied despite a promise to the contrary)]]. When Jobs comes back a decade later, he cans Markkula.
16	* {{Biopic}}: Verging on hagiography. Despite showing some of the more unattractive aspects of Jobs' personality (dumping his old friends, refusing to acknowledge his daughter), the tone as a whole is quite worshipful.
17	* ButNowIMustGo: Steve Wozniak, disappointed in the new corporate culture at Apple and having grown distant from his old friend Steve Jobs, quits.
18	* CallForward: Late in the film Jobs is seen futzing with his Sony Discman and complaining about how it's a piece of crap. Apple eventually invented the [=iPod=], which made the Walk/Discman and the [=CDs=] it played obsolete.
19	* DisappearedDad[=/=]GlorifiedSpermDonor: Jobs knocks up his girlfriend just as Apple is starting to take off. He deals with this by dumping his girlfriend and refusing to admit the child is his, going so far as to decline visitation rights with his daughter even after he's been found legally responsible for her support.
20	** Weirdly, Jobs' reconciliation with said daughter Lisa is left offscreen. She just pops up one day, sleeping on his couch.
21	* ForegoneConclusion: Almost averted. The film ends about a decade before Jobs' death in 2011. However the title card that comes up before the end credits reveals ''Steven Paul Jobs 1955-2011''.
22	* TheGhost: Bill Gates is mentioned several times but never shown, not even in the scene where an enraged Jobs calls him and screams about suing him for every penny he has.
23	* HowWeGotHere: The movie starts with Jobs introducing the [=iPod=] in 2001 before jumping back to the 1970s. The film never quite reaches back there either, ending with Jobs' return to Apple in 1997.
24	* InsufferableGenius: Steve's high standards for every new computer design results in revolutionary advances, but develops really antagonistic relationships with both the crew designing the computer and the fellow board members. In a subversion of BunnyEarsLawyer, his revolutionary computers are also over budget, over priced and over marketed, resulting in declining profits and eventually being removed from his own company.
25	* JerkAss: Steve Jobs may be brilliant, but he also has a hard time not acting like a terrible person when other people don't do what he wants them to. He also throws his girlfriend out when she becomes pregnant (and denies the child is his even when a paternity test proves she is), refuses to grant the engineers that were with him from the beginning stock options, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and constantly parks in the handicapped spot on the Apple campus]]
26	* MononymousBiopicTitle
27	* MythologyGag: Wozniak and Jobs argue about the name "Apple" and Wozniak cites Apple Records, the music company owned by Music/TheBeatles. Wozniak jokes that Jobs is insisting on the name because he likes Music/BobDylan better than the Beatles. In RealLife Apple Computers and Apple Records litigated over the name off and on for thirty years before finally settling in 2010.
28	* PrefersGoingBarefoot: Hippie college student Steve Jobs walks around campus barefoot.
29	* ProtagonistTitle
30	* TimeCompressionMontage: The film covers events between 1985 (when Jobs was kicked out of Apple) and 1996 in about 30 seconds using this. Mostly consisting of news reports about the gradual decline of Apple and Steve Jobs' [=NeXT=] Computer.
31	* WeUsedToBeFriends:
32	** Jobs rather cruelly kicks Daniel Kottke (Lukas Haas), his old friend and an original employee of Apple from the garage days, to the curb, refusing to give him any shares in the company.
33	** And much later, Jobs fires Mike Markkula, who put in the initial capital that helped Apple grow out of Jobs' father's garage (though that one has at least some justification - see BestServedCold above).
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