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Audience Rating: R (Restricted)Binding: DVD EAN: 0883629031545 Format: NTSC Label: HDNet Manufacturer: HDNet Publisher: HDNet Release Date: May 16, 2006 Studio: HDNet Theatrical Release Date: October 11, 2002 Editorial Review: Amazon.com: One of the greatest scandals in American corporate history is chronicled in the riveting documentary Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room. Based on the bestselling book by Fortune magazine reporters Bethany McLean and Peter Elkin, and directed by Alex Gibney (who also produced The Trials of Henry Kissinger), the film is an epic morality tale, drawing upon a wealth of insider interviews and archival material to show how Enron, once the nation's seventh largest corporate entity, essentially faked its bookkeeping to report profits that never existed. The corrupt and closely-guarded mismanagement by Enron executives (including Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling, later placed on criminal trial) is revealed through such heinous concepts as "Hypothetical Future Value" (a way of reaping fortunes based on false profit projections) and the use of offshore "shell" companies to hide the massive losses that eventually toppled the company (along with the venerable Arthur Anderson accounting firm) and left 20,000 employees jobless. As a maddening portrait of hubris and white-collar crime, Enron transcends political and corporate boundaries by showing how smart and powerful men grew blinded by greed and brought ruin upon themselves, along with thousands of otherwise innocent victims. For better and worse, it's a perfect double-feature with eye-opening 2004 documentary The Corporation. --Jeff Shannon Amazon.com: Based on the best-selling book of the same name by Fortune reporters Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind, a multidimensional study of one of the biggest business scandals in American history. The chronicle takes a look at one of the greatest corporate disasters in history, in which top executives from the 7th largest company in this country walked away with over one billion dollars, leaving investors and employees with nothing. The film features insider accounts and rare corporate audio and video tapes that reveal colossal personal excesses of the Enron hierarchy and the utter moral vacuum that posed as corporate philosophy. The human drama that unfolds within Enron's walls resembles a Greek tragedy and produces a domino effect that could shape the face of our economy and ethical code for years to come. This DVD-R will not play on a standard DVD player. It contains Windows Media Video High Definition (WMVHD) content. View WMVHD content on a Windows PC (3GHz or faster recommended) with Windows Media Player for the true HD experience of 720p and stereo sound. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Lions for Lambs"Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room" is a chilling,engrossing,and surprisingly timely documentary on how a corporation fleeced tons of hard-working Americans and made millions in the process. It starts with ordinary,talented men like the late Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling,as well as an Asian man fascinated by numbers and strippers. They started out as entrepreneurs; they weren't born with silver spoons. In retrospect,it's fascinating to see their ads depicting Enron as an innovative company ... Read More Rating: - Worthy of Euripides- A True American Tradgedy.You all probably know the story: It briefly dominated the news the late 2001. Enron, named one of "America's Most Innovative Companies" by Fortune magazine for six consecutive years, from 1996 to 2001. On the Fortune's "100 Best Companies to Work for in America" list in 2000. Reported 111 Billion in earnings that same year. Purportedly one of the ten most valuable American corporations, throughout the Nineties. Audited by Arther Andersen, the oldest and one of the most respected ... Read More Rating:  - Unfettered Hubris Drives Intriguing Account of Enron ScandalEven after reading Kurt Eichenwald's Conspiracy of Fools: A True Story, I was not prepared for the near-Greek tragedy presented in this smartly produced documentary of the Enron scandal based on yet another book, Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron, by journalists Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind. Directed by Andy Gibney, the 2005 film follows the complicated rise and fall of Enron in an easy-to-follow, chronological order since the mid-1980's, using actor Peter ... Read More Rating: - Finally, a logical and watchable explanationDirector Alex Gibney has crafted a fine film, making crystal clear the arrogance, duplicity and horror of the Enron scandal. Previous reviewers have covered it all, but I must reiterate that the events are put in a perspective that any middle-schooler could understand. I was angry watching this film, so I guess it secceeded in its mission. The greed and intentional cruelty are well-examined, especially in the references to the traders' comments regarding the California energy crisis. Former Governer ... Read More Rating: - very goodThis movie was easy to watch, but upsetting that capitalism was allowed to take advantage of so many people, and so self serving. Very interesting movie, easy to watch, and very informative. |
