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Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
Directed by
Alex Gibney
R
2005
1h 50m
Documentary
,
Biography
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7.6
97%
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A documentary about the Enron corporation, its faulty and corrupt business practices, and how they led to its fall.
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Cast of Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
Peter Coyote
Narrator
John Beard
Self
Jim Chanos
Self
Dick Cheney
Self
Carol Coale
Self
Gray Davis
Self
Reggie Dees II
Self
Joseph Dunn
Self
Max Eberts
Self
Peter Elkind
Self
David Freeman
Self
Philip Hilder
Self
Al Kaseweter
Self
Bill Lerach
Self
Loretta Lynch
Self
Amanda Martin-Brock
Self
Bethany McLean
Self
Mike Muckleroy
Self
James Nutter
Self
John Olson
Self
Kevin Phillips
Self
David V. Porter
Self
Nancy Rapoport
Self
Harvey Rosenfield
Self
Mimi Swartz
Self
Robert Traband
Self
Sherron Watkins
Self
Henry Waxman
Self
Andrew Weissmann
Self
Colin Whitehead
Self
Charles Wickman
Self
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Self
Tim Belden
Self (archive footage)
Bill Clinton
Self (archive footage)
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room Ratings & Reviews
Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
Christy Lemire
Alex Gibney takes a notorious tale of corporate greed and plays it as Greek tragedy, Texas-style.
Arizona Republic
Bill Muller
A meticulously researched and ably handled chronicle of one of the largest corporate scandals in American history.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
It's not an indictment, so much. It's more like a mirror.
Seattle Times
Moira MacDonald
Gibney's documentary is ultimately not about business and numbers but about morality; how a group of people, blinded by money, lost their souls.
Denver Post
Michael Booth
Go see it before you buy another stock you don't understand. Go see it before you bank your retirement on the company pension fund. Go see it before you vote in another election.
Detroit Free Press
Terry Lawson
Allow yourself the pleasure of being thoroughly entertained while being equally outraged by this movie.
San Francisco Chronicle
Jonathan Curiel
There will be lots of seething at the sight of it all, but there are enough good laughs to make the experience more than worthwhile.
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
Gibney has been able to get his hands on the right materials, and he assembles the right talking heads to string the story together.
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
It's a chilling, completely fascinating documentary that reveals the face of unregulated greed in a way that's every bit as terrifying as Lon Chaney's unmasking in The Phantom of the Opera. Maybe more so, because everything here is true.
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
The movie helps the average American understand the nature of the shell games perpetuated by Enron and how 'synergistic corruptions' can corrupt absolutely.
Movie Mom
Nell Minow
The great strength of the film is its conclusion that this is not a story about numbers; it is a story about people.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Eleanor Ringel Cater
Gibney's research is impressive, as is his ability to clarify a complex bit of shady business into something (semi) comprehensible to those who don't know a day trader from a daytripper.
Newsweek
David Ansen
Audiences jeered and shouted at the screen in outrage. It has that kind of impact, without resorting to any of Michael Moore's below-the-belt tactics.
Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Scott Von Doviak
As compelling a refresher course as one could hope for.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
No matter what your politics, Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room will make you mad.
Dallas Morning News
Chris Vognar
Go see Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room and learn how to get righteously angry again.
Washington Post
Michael O'Sullivan
It's a story of jaw-dropping chutzpah, grim, mostly hindsight-based humor and more stomach-churning drama than you could find in 10 screenplays.
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
The movie does more than entertain and enlighten you. At the end, you also realize you've been watching a classic American tale, one that we can only hope will never be repeated -- though it well might be.
San Jose Mercury News
Bruce Newman
Americans love a good villain, and in Enron chairman Kenneth Lay, former CEO Jeffrey Skilling and CFO Andrew Fastow, the movie provides a perfect storm of scoundrels.
Slate
David Edelstein
The documentary cannot be called muckraking, as the muck has already been well-raked, but Gibney's recounting has a touch of playful sadism that I quite enjoyed.
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