Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
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Brand: MAGNOLIA HOME ENTERTAINMENTDVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 110 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-01-17
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Magnolia
Movie Reviews of Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
Movie Review: Worth seeing, and sharing with a friend.
Summary: 4 Stars
This is a smart and well-paced look both in front of, and behind, the scene to explain what happened with Enron, and how things went so wrong. I highly recommend it to people who want to understand the perils of deregulation of energy markets, and more broadly about how private incentives for capitalists can be so at odds with the public interest. The simple explanation of how California taxpayers were left tens of billions of dollars in the hole because of flawed deregulation and price manipulation is priceless.
Summary of Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
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.DVD Features:
- Available Audio Tracks: English (Unknown Format)
- Commentary by: writer-director Alex Gibney (Unknown Format)
- Deleted scenes
- "The Making of Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room" featuring research footage and exclusive interviews with writer-director Alex Gibney and investigative journalist Bethany McLean
- Enron company skits
- Enron commercial
- Where are they now?: updates on the executives, traders, and whistleblowers
- A gallery of Enron cartoons
- The original Fortune magazine articles
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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
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