Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
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The inside story of one of historys greatest business scandals in which top executives of americas 7th largest company walked away with over one billion dollars while investors & employees lost everything.Studio: Magnolia Pict Hm EntRelease Date: 11/07/2006Run time: 110 minutes
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One of the greatest scandals in American corporate history is chronicled in the riveting documentary Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room. Based on the bestselling book by Fortune magazine reporters Bethany McLean and Peter Elkin, and directed by Alex Gibney (who also produced The Trials of Henry Kissinger), the film is an epic morality tale, drawing upon a wealth of insider interviews and archival material to show how Enron, once the nation's seventh largest corporate entity, essentially faked its bookkeeping to report profits that never existed. The corrupt and closely-guarded mismanagement by Enron executives (including Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling, later placed on criminal trial) is revealed through such heinous concepts as "Hypothetical Future Value" (a way of reaping fortunes based on false profit projections) and the use of offshore "shell" companies to hide the massive losses that eventually toppled the company (along with the venerable Arthur Anderson accounting firm) and left 20,000 employees jobless. As a maddening portrait of hubris and white-collar crime, Enron transcends political and corporate boundaries by showing how smart and powerful men grew blinded by greed and brought ruin upon themselves, along with thousands of otherwise innocent victims. For better and worse, it's a perfect double-feature with eye-opening 2004 documentary The Corporation. --Jeff Shannon
The inside story of one of historys greatest business scandals in which top executives of americas 7th largest company walked away with over one billion dollars while investors & employees lost everything.Studio: Magnolia Pict Hm EntRelease Date: 11/07/2006Run time: 110 minutes
Amazon.com:
One of the greatest scandals in American corporate history is chronicled in the riveting documentary Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room. Based on the bestselling book by Fortune magazine reporters Bethany McLean and Peter Elkin, and directed by Alex Gibney (who also produced The Trials of Henry Kissinger), the film is an epic morality tale, drawing upon a wealth of insider interviews and archival material to show how Enron, once the nation's seventh largest corporate entity, essentially faked its bookkeeping to report profits that never existed. The corrupt and closely-guarded mismanagement by Enron executives (including Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling, later placed on criminal trial) is revealed through such heinous concepts as "Hypothetical Future Value" (a way of reaping fortunes based on false profit projections) and the use of offshore "shell" companies to hide the massive losses that eventually toppled the company (along with the venerable Arthur Anderson accounting firm) and left 20,000 employees jobless. As a maddening portrait of hubris and white-collar crime, Enron transcends political and corporate boundaries by showing how smart and powerful men grew blinded by greed and brought ruin upon themselves, along with thousands of otherwise innocent victims. For better and worse, it's a perfect double-feature with eye-opening 2004 documentary The Corporation. --Jeff Shannon
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- Excellent Doco on Enron Scandal
I was so impressed by Alex Gibney's "Taxi to the Dark Side" (about the Bush administration's own unconscionable actions in the so-called War on Terror)that I decided to check out his film on the Enron debacle, and I was not disappointed.
The collapse of Enron is, of course, a cautionary tale of ethics left behind in the quest for the almighty dollar.
What is impressive about this film is the way the money manipulations are explained so even non-PhD's can follow the trail ... Read More
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- Enron DVD
Well this did not work out the way I'd hoped. I could not use the DVD in either my brand new HD DVD player or my older one. Nor did it work in the DVD player at the political office where I wanted to show it either. It only worked on my computer. So I was not able to use it for the purpose I desired.
Rating: - It's a few years old, but NOT out-dated
Don't think that this story is "old" and without relevance. We are all still feeling the effects today, and the same kinds of things are still happening. The makers of this film are fond of saying "it's not a movie about numbers, but about people," and that is true. It's a compelling story, well told, in an artistic fashion.
I've owned this DVD since it was first released and watched it well over a dozen times. I never tire of it, and the bonus features, such as the director's commentary, ... Read More
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- Bias is an Obvious as the Title
Although this movie does a fair job of explaining what happened with Enron like most of these types of documentaries there's a strong and obvious bias. The title says it all. It blames men for the problem. The supposed "whistleblowers" are all women. The movie relies on these women for firsthand accounts, ignoring the fact that they were right there in the action. They participated in illegal actions, not only knowing what they were doing but plainly profiting. They didn't make millions but were paid several ... Read More
Rating: - Lions for Lambs
"Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room" is a chilling,engrossing,and surprisingly timely documentary on how a corporation fleeced tons of hard-working Americans and made millions in the process. It starts with ordinary,talented men like the late Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling,as well as an Asian man fascinated by numbers and strippers. They started out as entrepreneurs; they weren't born with silver spoons. In retrospect,it's fascinating to see their ads depicting Enron as an innovative company bringing light ... Read More
- Excellent Doco on Enron ScandalI was so impressed by Alex Gibney's "Taxi to the Dark Side" (about the Bush administration's own unconscionable actions in the so-called War on Terror)that I decided to check out his film on the Enron debacle, and I was not disappointed.
The collapse of Enron is, of course, a cautionary tale of ethics left behind in the quest for the almighty dollar.
What is impressive about this film is the way the money manipulations are explained so even non-PhD's can follow the trail ... Read More
- Enron DVDWell this did not work out the way I'd hoped. I could not use the DVD in either my brand new HD DVD player or my older one. Nor did it work in the DVD player at the political office where I wanted to show it either. It only worked on my computer. So I was not able to use it for the purpose I desired.
- It's a few years old, but NOT out-datedDon't think that this story is "old" and without relevance. We are all still feeling the effects today, and the same kinds of things are still happening. The makers of this film are fond of saying "it's not a movie about numbers, but about people," and that is true. It's a compelling story, well told, in an artistic fashion.
I've owned this DVD since it was first released and watched it well over a dozen times. I never tire of it, and the bonus features, such as the director's commentary, ... Read More
- Bias is an Obvious as the TitleAlthough this movie does a fair job of explaining what happened with Enron like most of these types of documentaries there's a strong and obvious bias. The title says it all. It blames men for the problem. The supposed "whistleblowers" are all women. The movie relies on these women for firsthand accounts, ignoring the fact that they were right there in the action. They participated in illegal actions, not only knowing what they were doing but plainly profiting. They didn't make millions but were paid several ... Read More
- Lions for Lambs"Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room" is a chilling,engrossing,and surprisingly timely documentary on how a corporation fleeced tons of hard-working Americans and made millions in the process. It starts with ordinary,talented men like the late Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling,as well as an Asian man fascinated by numbers and strippers. They started out as entrepreneurs; they weren't born with silver spoons. In retrospect,it's fascinating to see their ads depicting Enron as an innovative company bringing light ... Read More
