Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
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- Release Date
- April 22, 2005
- Director
- Alex Gibney
- Cast
- Peter Coyote , John Beard , Barbara Boxer , George W. Bush , Jim Chanos , dick cheney
- Runtime
- 110
- Main Genre
- Documentary
- Writers
- Bethany McLean , Peter Elkind , Alex Gibney
- Tagline
- It's Just Business.
- Website
- http://www.enronmovie.com
Summary
Directed by Alex Gibney, this is the inside story of one of history's greatest business scandals, in which top executives of America's 7th largest company walked away with over 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, Gibney 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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