Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (R)

Quicklook Rating★★★½

synopsis

This is the inside story of one of history's greatest business scandals, in which top executives of America's seventh largest company walked away with more than one billion dollars while investors and employees lost everything. Based on the best-selling book The Smartest Guys in the Room by Fortune reporters Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind and featuring insider accounts and incendiary corporate audio and videotapes, the film reveals the almost unimaginable personal excesses of the Enron hierarchy and the utter moral vacuum that posed as corporate philosophy. The film comes to a harrowing dénouement as we hear Enron traders' own voices as they wring hundreds of millions of dollars in profits out of the California energy crisis. As a result, we come to understand how the avarice of Enron's traders and their bosses had a shocking and profound domino effect that may shape the face of our economy for years to come.

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Documentary
1 hr. 50 min.
Opened April 22nd, 2005

MovieGoer Review

By now, we've heard the riches-to-rags catastrophe that was the Enron debacle, but the documentary Enron: the Smartest Guys in the Room takes us inside--from the corporation's inception to its eventual implosion. It may not be a revelation ... MORE

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synopsis

This is the inside story of one of history's greatest business scandals, in which top executives of America's seventh largest company walked away with more than one billion dollars while investors and employees lost everything. Based on the best-selling book The Smartest Guys in the Room by Fortune reporters Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind and featuring insider accounts and incendiary corporate audio and videotapes, the film reveals the almost unimaginable personal excesses of the Enron hierarchy and the utter moral vacuum that posed as corporate philosophy. The film comes to a harrowing dénouement as we hear Enron traders' own voices as they wring hundreds of millions of dollars in profits out of the California energy crisis. As a result, we come to understand how the avarice of Enron's traders and their bosses had a shocking and profound domino effect that may shape the face of our economy for years to come.

details

Documentary
1 hr. 50 min.
Opened April 22nd, 2005

MovieGoer Review

By now, we've heard the riches-to-rags catastrophe that was the Enron debacle, but the documentary Enron: the Smartest Guys in the Room takes us inside--from the corporation's inception to its eventual implosion. It may not be a revelation ... MORE