Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room

Name: Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
Genre: Documentary
Released: April 22, 2005
Duration: 109 min
Rating: 82

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Magnolia Pictures | Release Date: April 22, 2005 | R

Summary: This documentary is the inside story of one of history's greatest business scandals, in which top executives of America's 7th largest company walked away with over one billion dollars while investors and employees lost everything. (Magnolia Pictures)

Director: Alex Gibney

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: R

Runtime: 109 min

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Owen Gleiberman

A deeply straightforward yet beautifully crafted documentary. Read full review

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Steven Rea

With no-nonsense narration by Peter Coyote and a soundtrack that's at once apt, ironic and really, really good, The Smartest Guys in the Room is anything but a dry dissection of a major Wall Street debacle. Read full review

James Greenberg

Not only a great cautionary tale, it's a civics lesson that should be seen by every concerned citizen. Read full review

William Arnold

Based on a best-selling book by Fortune magazine writers Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind, the film approaches Enron through the Horatio Alger saga of its founder, Kenneth Lay, the son of a dirt-poor Missouri Baptist minister. Read full review

Scott Tobias

Handsomely produced and photographed, which alone distinguishes it from the guerrilla standards of its cut-rate peers, Enron succeeds most by simply making a complex situation graspable, a tall order when the perpetrators are masters of grand-scale deception. Read full review

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. Read full review

Andrew O'Hehir

Amid the infoglut that surrounds us, Gibney's film feels too much like more noise. Is it telling the most important business story of our lifetimes, or is it just another fantastical yarn, crammed into the schedule after Scott and Laci Peterson, but before Charlemagne and the ancient Peruvian astronauts? Read full review

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BillS.

Jun 3, 2006

A reflection of how many CEO's have forgotton their real role...to protect their organization, their employees and stockholders...not to fill their pockets and egos.