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Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005)

R 04/22/2005 Documentary 1h 50m
72%
User
Score
7.6/10
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

Screenplay

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

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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

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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