Barbarians at the Gate

Barbarians at the Gate
by Glenn Jordan

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Actor: Fred Dalton Thompson, James Garner, Joanna Cassidy, Jonathan Pryce, Peter Riegert
Director: Glenn Jordan
Brand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 107 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-09-25
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Hbo Home Video

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Movie Review: Barbarians and Buffoons rattling at the gates
Summary: 5 Stars

Good film : Garner gives a remarkably convincing performance.
Screenplay is well structured and pungently critical of the corporate strategies displayed by all those drawn into the levered buyout game and gamble.

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The 80's... It was a time when everybody was doing the big bucks but f. Ross Johnson CEO of R.J. R. Nabisco has every intention of making a fortune. When Johnson (James Garner) decides to buy out the Nabisco shareholders and take over his company no one is prepared for what hits the fan. Johnson is introduced to the master of the leveraged buyout Henry Kravis (Johnathon Pryce) but afraid of losing the company to this sharp dealer he decides to make his move with Peter Cohen (Peter Riegert). Kravis however is not to be outdone and begins an aggressive campaign of his own. What follows is a down-to-the-wire battle to see who's really king of the Wall Street jungle. They may look like polite well-dressed businessmen but listen hard and you can hear the pounding of BARBARIANS AT THE GATE.Running Time: 107 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY UPC: 026359083525 Manufacturer No: 90835

This HBO original comedy, adapted by Larry Gelbart (Tootsie) from the book by Bryan Burrough and John Helyar, concerns one of the most compelling tales of corporate buyout madness in the go-go 1980s. James Garner plays F. Ross Johnson, CEO of RJR Nabisco. Following failed and expensive efforts to sell a smokeless cigarette to the public, Johnson decides that he's had enough of navigating around the wrath of the company's stockholders. Drawing up plans to buy RJR Nabisco outright, he soon finds himself outmatched (though still determined) in a race for the prize with takeover king Henry Kravis (Jonathan Pryce). The ensuing battle is both bitterly funny and full of acid-tinged insights into the '80s greed that changed corporate America forever. Besides Gelbart's great script and Glenn Jordan's competent direction, the star of this exciting film is Garner, who is absolutely wonderful as the gracious Johnson. --Tom Keogh

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