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(CNN)Â — After months of speculation and hype, the first biopic about Apple co-founder Steve Jobs hits theaters Friday.
“Jobs,” directed by Joshua Michael Stern and starring Ashton Kutcher as the iconic tech guru, spans much of Jobs’ early career, from his hippie days at Reed College in 1974 to the launch of the original iPod in 2001.
And guess what? Although it omits or glosses over many chapters of Jobs’ life, it’s not bad.
This is the first dramatic feature film to focus solely on the longtime Apple CEO, who died in 2011. A second Steve Jobs movie, written by Aaron Sorkin and adapted from the best-selling Jobs biography by Walter Isaacson, is due as early as next year.
Jobs’ tumultuous life could probably fill three movies. But “Jobs” focuses on his early years at Apple and ignores almost everything else. Even though the two-hour movie spans 27 years, it makes little or no mention of Jobs being adopted, his work at NeXT, his search for his real father, his leadership of Pixar, his marriage to Laurene Powell, his late-career triumphs at Apple or the cancer that eventually killed him.
It’s probably just as well. A movie with all that would be fascinating. It would also be four hours long.
Here are five things the movie gets right, and wrong.
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