I liked the movie and it reminded me of when I was a kid and my dad bought me a Commodore 64 and 5 1/4 floppy drive and a 1-year subscription to Creative Computing magazine. I spent so many hours learning programming and then wasted it all by going into the military because my parents couldn't afford to send me to university. Rural community and only my dad worked since my mother was injured.
When I got out and returned back up north, I got a "job", got married, and had a neighbor who was a Unix programmer. His home office was decked out with FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD servers, BSD magazines and literature everywhere. He talked me into using my GI Bill to go get a degree in CS, which is what I did. My unofficial hero since has been Theo de Raadt. Still using a *nix OS, still in IT.