Netflix teases comedy movie about missing $35M crypto password

Streaming service Netflix announced a new comedy movie focused on one couple’s attempt to remember a password and gain access to millions of dollars worth of cryptocurrency.

In a Thursday notice, Netflix said that Hollywood star Jennifer Garner would be one of the leads in the movie “One Attempt Remaining.” The comedy feature would focus on the story of two people who divorced only to discover “the cryptocurrency they won together on a cruise is now worth millions… but they’ve forgotten the password.”

According to What’s on Netflix, the story will include a notice from the US Securities and Exchange Commission, and the couple would have 48 hours to retrieve $35 million from the wallet before the claim expires.

Source: Netflix

Based on the title of the movie, the story could be a romantic comedy drawn from real crypto headaches, such as the saga of Stefan Thomas, the former Ripple chief technology officer, who was locked out of his own Bitcoin.

The former crypto executive forgot the password to an IronKey hard drive in which 7,002 Bitcoin (BTC) — roughly $640 million at the time of publication — was deposited in 2011. The drive erases the data after 10 incorrect attempts. Thomas reported that he had made eight attempts and had not publicly said whether he regained access to the funds as of December.

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Although crypto and blockchain have made inroads into US culture through movies and television series in the last 15 years, the technology has rarely been the focus of a feature film.

Some exceptions include the 2020 feature film “Money Plane,” the 2022 documentary “Trust No One: The Hunt for the Crypto King,” based on the collapse of the QuadrigaCX exchange, and the upcoming release of “Going Infinite,” based on the downfall of crypto exchange FTX and its former CEO, Sam Bankman-Fried.

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One of the most infamous cases of an early crypto investor losing access to millions of dollars in a hardware wallet was the story of James Howells, a Welsh entrepreneur who reported losing a drive containing private keys to 8,000 BTC.

Howells reported that the drive had ended up in a landfill in the UK in 2013. He has been fighting with the local city council for years to get permission to search the site, but as of March 2025, he had practically exhausted all legal avenues to gain entry.

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