Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room R
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 50 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: January 17, 2006
- Originally Released: 2005
- Label: Magnolia Home Ent
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Directed by | Alex Gibney | |
Screenwriting by | Alex Gibney | |
Produced by | Joana Vicente & Jason Kliot | |
Executive Production by | Todd Wagner & Mark Cuban |
Entertainment Reviews:
Audiences jeered and shouted at the screen in outrage. It has that kind of impact, without resorting to any of Michael Moore's below-the-belt tactics.
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Newsweek
Gibney's documentary is a taut, focused essay asking why at every turn, methodically moving from key player to key player.
Sight and Sound
Rating: 3.5/4 --
Deft, entertaining and infuriating documentary about one of the most egregious cases of corporate corruption in American history.
Miami Herald
It's a chilling, completely fascinating documentary that reveals the face of unregulated greed...
Los Angeles Times
Rating: B+ --
This essential documentary skillfully maps out the shady "mark to market" accounting device that the men who called themselves "the smartest guys in the room" used to commit corporate fraud on a colossal scale.
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ColeSmithey.com
[R]iveting....It's a ringing indictment of corporate greed...
Rolling Stone
Gibney's film never forgets the human side: the macho execs nearly killing themselves on boys' vacations with motorbikes, sky-diving and general risk-enhanced bonding; the suicide of one, the scapegoat imprisonment of another.
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Financial Times
Product Description:
This searing examination of the Enron accounting scandal reveals the psychology of greed and corporate corruption that facilitated the company's rise to power and also its fall. When Enron went bankrupt in 2001, the principals walked away millionaires--but later faced legal proceedings and jail sentences. Meanwhile, many employees and investors were left with nothing, not even their 401k retirement savings. Shedding light on the new economy of the 1990s when predictions and book-cooking flourished without actual profits, the film shows how it was not Enron alone but a network of bankers, traders, and accountants who turned a blind eye to the company's clearly suspicious numbers. CEO Ken Lay and top dogs Jeff Skilling and Andy Fastow give candid interviews that illustrate their skill at deflecting hard questions and egotistically boasting about the company's success. In one of the company's cold and calculated moves--which caused the California power outages, and lead to the ousting of governor Gray Davis--Enron employees are shown laughing at forest fires. Unbelievable footage of employees reveals unbridled greed, lust for risk-taking, and guiltless cheating, all while thinking they could never be caught. Finally, a few brave whistle-blowers stepped forward, including Bethany McLean, author of the Enron novel upon which this film is based, who wrote an article in Fortune magazine calling the company's bluff. A remarkable documentary which packages the events of the scandal into a cohesive story, this is one film not to miss.
This film screened in the 2005 SXSW Film Festival in Austin, Texas.
This film screened in the 2005 SXSW Film Festival in Austin, Texas.
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- Sales Rank: 23,617
- UPC: 876964000017
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