Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room

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Stephen C @bob25009 Nov 21 Real footage in 01 hour, 49 minutes, and 15 seconds!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Rated R for Some Nudity and Language!!!!!!!!!!!!! The USA grossed over $4,100,000.00!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Copyright 2005-2025 Magnolia Pictures!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! See more Jonathan K @aFIREintheattic Aug 31 It’s packed with all the "gory" details and horrific actions you’d expect from a doc of this sort, so if you’re here for a history lesson, it does the job. But it’s not exactly well-crafted cinema, even for a documentary. Not terrible, or anything -- just very “here’s the timeline of events, enjoy.” See more Leaburn O @RT35452347 Jul 5 Feels strangely dated but a great cautionary tale of corporate greed and fraud. Enron happened just a few years before I joined the workforce and looking back, nothing had been learnt. It was no surprise that the financial crisis followed after eerily familiar behaviour in the subprime markets. Watched this one on DVD. See more Shael @RT90874798 12/26/2023 The devastation of taking investors money and doing absolutely nothing with that cash but to line their own pockets and sell a success story with fake stocks. See more Rory M @RT48322472 12/10/2023 Fine. Very interested in business. Found the narrative a bit all over the place. Maybe I don't have the context of following it at the time See more Nawt W @RT94004908 07/10/2023 A remarkably engaging documentary about how "the boys" were selling potential profits for 20 years with just their smiles, audacious demeanor, and a little bit of fraud. It's been almost twenty years, and the story of Enron doesn't even seem that unique anymore. There have been so many ludicrous stories of "fake it until you make it" and general accounting fraud incidents that the question of how they could think they would get away with this seems foolish. Moreover, some of them got away with it. Everyone sentenced for this has since been released. Lou Pai has been affected at all, and Jeff Skilling is doing energy trading again. And what has changed since anyway? Everyone still fabricates numbers and facts to keep that share price high because that's paramount to success. Corporate ethics or lack thereof are still toxic just in a more refined way. Likewise, everything is still run by people who will go to their graves before they acknowledge that they prioritize their bottom line and hundreds of millions in offshore accounts over tens of thousands of employees. See more Read all reviews

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