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Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room

Rating:R (for language and some nudity)
Genre:Documentary
Release Date:April 22, 2005
Running time:110 minutes
Cast:Peter Coyote
Director:Alex Gibney
Producer:Alex Gibney, Jason Kliot, Susan Motamed
Writer:Peter Elkind, Alex Gibney, Bethany McLean
Distributor:Magnolia Pictures

Description: This is the inside story of one of history's greatest business scandals, in which top executives of America's seventh largest company walked away with more than 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, the film 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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