Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (Blu-ray)

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  • Rated: Not Rated
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 50 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: September 26, 2006
  • Originally Released: 2005
  • Label: Magnolia Home Ent

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User Ratings: 32,523
4 stars out of 5 -- Gibney's film is packed with more drama, sleaze and wickedness than your average Hollywood pot-boiler....[T]his manages to be both shocking and compelling.
Ultimate DVD
Oct 1, 2006
Gibney's film never forgets the human side: the macho execs nearly killing themselves on boys' vacations with motorbikes, sky-diving and general risk-enhanced bonding; the suicide of one, the scapegoat imprisonment of another. Full Review
Financial Times
Oct 7, 2018
ENRON is a tight, fascinating chronicle of arrogance and greed...
New York Times
Apr 22, 2005
Rating: B+ -- goes a long way to explain exactly why Enron imploded Full Review
Old School Reviews
Feb 1, 2006
[A] tale of swaggering arrogance and untrammeled greed....The film's most climactic moments involve the chilling audiotapes of avaricious Enron traders as they toy with California's energy crisis, wringing millions in profits from the misfortune of an entire state.
USA Today
Apr 22, 2005
Rating: 3/4 -- Alex Gibney takes a notorious tale of corporate greed and plays it as Greek tragedy, Texas-style. Full Review
Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
Jun 25, 2005
Rating: 5/5 -- Fascinante do início ao fim, expõe o caso Enron e todas as suas complexas implicações de maneira didática e bem-humorada, funcionando, ainda, como um fantástico estudo sobre a natureza humana.
Cinema em Cena
Jan 5, 2006

Product Description:

This searing examination of the Enron accounting scandal reveals the psychology of greed and corporate corruption that facilitated the company's rise to power and also its fall. When Enron went bankrupt in 2001, the principals walked away millionaires--but later faced legal proceedings and jail sentences. Meanwhile, many employees and investors were left with nothing, not even their 401k retirement savings. Shedding light on the new economy of the 1990s when predictions and book-cooking flourished without actual profits, the film shows how it was not Enron alone but a network of bankers, traders, and accountants who turned a blind eye to the company's clearly suspicious numbers. CEO Ken Lay and top dogs Jeff Skilling and Andy Fastow give candid interviews that illustrate their skill at deflecting hard questions and egotistically boasting about the company's success. In one of the company's cold and calculated moves--which caused the California power outages, and lead to the ousting of governor Gray Davis--Enron employees are shown laughing at forest fires. Unbelievable footage of employees reveals unbridled greed, lust for risk-taking, and guiltless cheating, all while thinking they could never be caught. Finally, a few brave whistle-blowers stepped forward, including Bethany McLean, author of the Enron novel upon which this film is based, who wrote an article in Fortune magazine calling the company's bluff. A remarkable documentary which packages the events of the scandal into a cohesive story, this is one film not to miss.

This film screened in the 2005 SXSW Film Festival in Austin, Texas.

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