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The First $20 Million Is Always the Hardest
2002 · Film · 105 min
Directed by Mick Jackson
Andy, a successful marketing guy quits his job, gets a new job at a research facility, makes a powerful enemy who makes him volunteer for a nearly impossible project: The $99 PC. The only available guys at the lab, three sociopaths, together they compile a revolutionary PC for $99, then they become the victims of a venture capitalist and Andy's old foe, can he find a way to overcome the problems?
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For an actual 'screenless smartphone' look at the movie 'The First $20 Million Is Always the Hardest'
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0280674/
In the movie The First $20 Million is Always the Hardest (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_First_$20_Million_Is_Always_the_Hardest) there's a massive conspiracy to steal source code from developers using...webcams.
I can only presume that having a plot revolving around a distributed version control system with a nefarious controller would go over the heads of the audience. It is a much more sinister plan, though.