Nevertheless, it's disappointing that a movie so intent on immersing us in the moment should sinkinto such a swamp of back story and then -- in the sorry pop-psych tradition of "Ordinary People" -- lay the blame squarely on Mom.
Imagine water pouring into a sink and a really tiny stopper trying to hold it all back--that's our treatment program--and there's nothing slowing the amount of water pouring into that sink.
Teledesic Chairman Craig McCaw had expressed interest in buying the ailing Iridium just hours before it filed for Chapter 11 back in March, but he decided instead to sink his company's money into another bankrupt satellite phone provider, ICO.