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Director:
Writers:
Peter Elkind (writer)
Alex Gibney (writer)
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Release Date:
9 March 2006 (Netherlands) more
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Come see where all your money went. more
Plot:
A documentary about the Enron corporation, its faulty and corrupt business practices, and how they led to its fall. full summary | full synopsis
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Awards:
Nominated for Oscar. Another 1 win & 1 nomination more
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Holy Cow! You don't have to be the smartest guy to understand this. more (15 total)

Cast

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Peter Coyote ... Narrator
Joe Lingold ... Energy Trader

Michael Lugenbuehl ... Cliff Baxter
Mark Salzberg ... Croupiers
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USA:110 min
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Quotes:
Kenneth Lay: [Q&A session with employees] All right, we are down to questions. And I got a few up here.
[reads question from the floor]
Kenneth Lay: 'I would like to know if you are on crack, if so that would explain a lot. If not, you may want to start because it's going to be a long time before we trust you again.'
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18 out of 24 people found the following comment useful.
Holy Cow! You don't have to be the smartest guy to understand this., 24 April 2007
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Author: bluessis from United States

OK. I remember when this came out, I thought that business stuff is not my forte, and so I never bothered to watch it. But tonight my boyfriend was watching it on PBS, and the filmmakers and people being interviewed totally make it understandable. And I am totally appalled. It boggles my head that these people, not just Ken Lay and Jeffrey Skilling, but also just the common traders on the floor, were so scarily insane and greedy. Some of the clips of traders talking on the floor or phones about events in California, etc., were the scariest and (I know I said it before, but...) appalling! I highly recommend this film. I feel terribly sorry for all of those people who got caught up in the maelstrom. Somehow, I find this documentary about corporate finance gone bad creepier than any horror film... cause it is real!

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