Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
Documentary • R • 2005 • 1 hr 50 min
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Peter Coyote, John Beard, Jim Chanos, Dick Cheney, Carol Coale
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Wish it wasn’t such a surface level exploration of the topic, but it hits all the broad strokes to fill you in on the crazy story
These guys and their spiritual sons and daughters running around today, can go away. To Antarctica. Educational film.
A great financial documentary, if you are into that kind of thing.
I wasn't sure if this movie would be interesting to me on any level, but this was a thoroughly engrossing explainer. Extremely well done.
Brilliant coverage of the Enron collapse. Inspired me to read the book. Was going to meet Fastow once but he wasn't let in the country.
A competent examination of America's culture of greed and how those in the culture have no regard for anyone else.
Incredibly thorough documentary that succeeds in telling a compelling story while simultaneously vacillating an educational experience
I was pretty young when all this was happening, nice to finally understand and get as mad as everyone else was. Solid doc.
Informative and interesting on a topic I was too young to understand or care about at the time.
Excellent documentary, insightful and interesting. Worth seeing
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