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Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room

It’s Just Business.

7.2 / 10

110 minutes

2005-04-22

English

US

Actors :

Peter Coyote, John Beard, Jim Chanos, Dick Cheney, Carol Coale, Gray Davis, Reggie Dees II, Joseph Dunn, Max Eberts, Peter Elkind, David Freeman, Philip Hilder, Al Kaseweter, Bill Lerach, Loretta Lynch

Description

A documentary about the Enron corporation, its faulty and corrupt business practices, and how they led to its fall.

Reviews

rsanek

rsanek

12/30/2021, 5:33:49 PM

I'm surprised by the how often this movie is recommended on forums I frequent online, and the corresponding glowing Rotten Tomatoes reviews. I found the storytelling to be inconsistently paced, and there was nearly no depth to the description of actually how the fraud was perpetrated. The tie-in to California was interesting and I appreciated all of the primary content they were able to use -- com...

GenerationofSwine

GenerationofSwine

1/14/2023, 12:57:09 AM

From the start the documentary makes it clear that it's a hit-piece. It has a clear agenda it's pushing and the film makers don't hold back on telling the public that, yes, Enron was evil. However, honestly, despite that it was pretty fair. It actually made more of a point to detail how Enron got to the place that brought convictions rather than doing a straight hit-piece on the corporation. ...