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Um documentário sobre a corporação Enron, suas práticas comerciais defeituosas e corruptas, e como elas levaram à sua ruína.Um documentário sobre a corporação Enron, suas práticas comerciais defeituosas e corruptas, e como elas levaram à sua ruína.Um documentário sobre a corporação Enron, suas práticas comerciais defeituosas e corruptas, e como elas levaram à sua ruína.
- Indicado a 1 Oscar
- 3 vitórias e 11 indicações no total
Tim Belden
- Self
- (cenas de arquivo)
Barbara Boxer
- Self
- (cenas de arquivo)
George W. Bush
- Self
- (cenas de arquivo)
James Chanos
- Self - President, Kynikos Associates
- (as Jim Chanos)
Bill Clinton
- Self
- (cenas de arquivo)
Reggie Dees II
- Self - Young man the stripper dances in front of
- (as Reggie Deets II)
Andrew Fastow
- Self
- (cenas de arquivo)
- Direção
- Roteiristas
- Elenco e equipe completos
- Produção, bilheteria e muito mais no IMDbPro
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- CuriosidadesAmong the protesters who disrupt the meeting with Jeff Skilling at San Francisco's Commonwealth Club is Marla Ruzicka. The former Global Exchange activist founded CIVIC (Campaign for Innocent Victims of Conflict), which worked to help the victims of the war in Iraq. She died in Iraq on April 16, 2005, the victim of a suicide bombing.
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Jeffrey Skilling: Oh I can't help myself. You know what the difference between the state of California and Titanic? And this is being webcast, and I know I'm going to regret this - at least when the Titanic went down, the lights were on.
- ConexõesFeatured in Independent Lens: Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005)
Avaliação em destaque
A fascinating story in a clear and well-delivered film whose only weakness is the bias inherent in the telling
When Enron was granted permission to use mark-to-market accounting it saw the start of the dramatic increase in its profits and its share price. The method allows a company to claim projected earnings from projects once the deal is signed. With this in place Enron was able to earn money without actually earning money. However this could not go on forever and the company was under pressure to continually come up with new ideas to keep the deals and money flowing. And it did so, to the point where it was widely praised within the business community and by stockholders. However things would eventually catch up with the company and a few years ago the company collapsed in bankruptcy before the arrests began.
Working for an American multinational myself I am always interested and critical of the business model of making more and more money and keeping the stock increasing in value being the only way to survive. So I have watched films like this and like The Corporation with interest and appreciate the way that they sell a complex issue in easy to understand ways. With the Enron film it is all the more interesting because it is a prime example of how it all fell down and how easy it is to con the market which, regardless of the legality of the accounting method used, is basically what they did! The film tells the story well and it is a tale that never struggles to fascinate. Lesser hands could have fudged the telling but the team here structure it well and use footage from Enron and C-Span to really good effect. In fact I did wonder how much this film cost to make because the vast majority of it is stock footage and a handful of interviews.
Although they lay things out well, the film doesn't manage to avoid nailing its colours to the mast; which is a shame because the story is compelling enough and damning enough to work without resorting to cheap digs, funny footage and so on. Sadly it does use this not to the point of distraction but just to the point where I wondered if the makers didn't think that the facts would be strong enough to make the audience get the point without the extra bit of hammering. The film also stretches to bring in Bush and his cronies as if they were also to blame; it doesn't labour this point but what little it does is stretched again it could have done less and allowed the audience to draw its own conclusions.
Overall this is not a perfect documentary because it is a bit biased and based on commentary from subjects all on one side of the fence. However it is well structured and easy to follow, stripping away the feared complexity of the tale and telling it in a fascinating and engaging way. A cautionary tale that I doubt that those that needed to learn from have learnt from. Well worth a look and yet another good documentary making it into cinemas.
Working for an American multinational myself I am always interested and critical of the business model of making more and more money and keeping the stock increasing in value being the only way to survive. So I have watched films like this and like The Corporation with interest and appreciate the way that they sell a complex issue in easy to understand ways. With the Enron film it is all the more interesting because it is a prime example of how it all fell down and how easy it is to con the market which, regardless of the legality of the accounting method used, is basically what they did! The film tells the story well and it is a tale that never struggles to fascinate. Lesser hands could have fudged the telling but the team here structure it well and use footage from Enron and C-Span to really good effect. In fact I did wonder how much this film cost to make because the vast majority of it is stock footage and a handful of interviews.
Although they lay things out well, the film doesn't manage to avoid nailing its colours to the mast; which is a shame because the story is compelling enough and damning enough to work without resorting to cheap digs, funny footage and so on. Sadly it does use this not to the point of distraction but just to the point where I wondered if the makers didn't think that the facts would be strong enough to make the audience get the point without the extra bit of hammering. The film also stretches to bring in Bush and his cronies as if they were also to blame; it doesn't labour this point but what little it does is stretched again it could have done less and allowed the audience to draw its own conclusions.
Overall this is not a perfect documentary because it is a bit biased and based on commentary from subjects all on one side of the fence. However it is well structured and easy to follow, stripping away the feared complexity of the tale and telling it in a fascinating and engaging way. A cautionary tale that I doubt that those that needed to learn from have learnt from. Well worth a look and yet another good documentary making it into cinemas.
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- bob the moo
- 19 de fev. de 2008
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- Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
- Locações de filme
- Houston, Texas, EUA(Enron Corporation headquarters)
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Bilheteria
- Faturamento bruto nos EUA e Canadá
- US$ 4.071.700
- Fim de semana de estreia nos EUA e Canadá
- US$ 76.639
- 24 de abr. de 2005
- Faturamento bruto mundial
- US$ 4.854.164
- Tempo de duração1 hora 50 minutos
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