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Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005)

R Apr 22, 2005 Documentary 1h 50m
User Score
72%
276 votes
Internet Movie Database
76%
Rotten Tomatoes
97%

It’s Just Business.

Overview

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

Alex Gibney
Director
Bethany McLean
Screenplay

Top Billed Cast

Peter Coyote
Peter Coyote

Narrator
John Beard
John Beard

Self
Jim Chanos
Jim Chanos

Self
Dick Cheney
Dick Cheney

Self
Carol Coale
Carol Coale

Self
Gray Davis
Gray Davis

Self
Reggie Dees II
Reggie Dees II

Self
Joseph Dunn
Joseph Dunn

Self
Max Eberts
Max Eberts

Self

Full Cast & Crew

Media

Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005) Official Trailer #1 - Documentary HD
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005) Official Trailer #1 - Documentary HD
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Reviews

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A review by rsanek
Written on December 30, 2021

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 -- company videos, recordings, etc. Still, I don't think I'd recommend this to a modern viewer....

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A review by GenerationofSwine
Written on January 14, 2023

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.

In other words, there is really a lot of meat on the bone here and it does a decent job of detailing the evolution of the company and why it turned out the way it did, rather than just focusing on the political mess that it created as one would have expected on a film covering this topic, and one with a fairly snarky title at that.

There is a lot to learn from watching this, particularly becau...

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