Release Year: 2005 Duration: 110 minutes Other Title: Enron: Rise and Fall Director: Alex Gibney Producer: Alex Gibney, Jason Kliot, Susan Motamed Distributor: Magnolia Pictures
synopsis
Based on the best-selling book of the same name by Fortune reporters Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind, a multidimensional study of one of the biggest business scandals in American history. The chronicle takes a look at one of the greatest corporate disasters in history, in which top executives from the 7th largest company in this country walked away with over one billion dollars, leaving investors and employees with nothing. The film features insider accounts and rare corporate audio and video tapes that reveal colossal personal excesses of the Enron hierarchy and the utter moral vacuum that posed as corporate philosophy. The human drama that unfolds within Enron's walls resembles a Greek tragedy and produces a domino effect that could shape the face of our economy and ethical code for years to come.
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Jeff Skilling as Himself John Beard as Himself Ken Lay as Himself
Gray Davis: [upon being asked whether the rumors that he was responsible for the black outs in California are just a plot by the Republican party to get him recalled]
[shouts]
Gray Davis: Hello!
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room Reviews (3 reviews)
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Rating : 4
See this film and you're likely to add quite a few hits to websites like scholar Louis Proyect's http://marxmail.org. "Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room," is a doc based on the best-selling non-fiction book, "The Smartest Guys in the Room," by Bethany McLean, who appears in the film, and by Peter Elkind. What transpires therein is so jaw-dropping with villains so audacious that you've got to wonder whether this is something Hollywood made up as a psychological thriller, or even a horror story.
