Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
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| Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room | |
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 Movie poster for Enron The Smartest Guys in the Room |
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| Directed by | Alex Gibney |
| Produced by | Alex Gibney |
| Written by | Bethany McLean Peter Elkind Alex Gibney |
| Starring | Andrew Fastow Jeffrey Skilling Kenneth Lay Peter Coyote Gray Davis |
| Music by | Matthew Hauser Marilyn Manson Tom Waits |
| Cinematography | Maryse Alberti |
| Editing by | Alison Ellwood |
| Distributed by | Magnolia Pictures |
| Release date(s) | April 22 2005 |
| Running time | 109 min. |
| Language | English |
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Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room is a 2005 documentary film based on the best-selling 2003 book of the same name by Fortune reporters Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind, a study of one of the largest business scandals in American history.
The film examines the collapse of the Enron Corporation, which resulted in criminal trials for several of the company's top executives. Also shows the involvement of Enron traders in California electricity crisis.
Interviews in this documentary were former excutives, stock analysts, reporters and former California Governor Gray Davis.
The film was nominated for Best Documentary Feature at the 78th Academy Awards.
[edit] See also
- Vitality curve - The management philosophy (discussed at length in the documentary) in which the lowest performing employees of a company are routinely fired. It has been cited as one of the causes behind the collapse of Enron.
- Milgram experiment - This psychological analogy was featured in the film.
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