Author: DVD

Format: NTSC

Release Date: 17-01-2006

Details: Product Description Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room is a riveting documentary that's every bit as absorbing as Fahrenheit 911. The film pulls back from the Enron headlines and senate hearings, and explains with exceptional clarity the technical details of the firm's never-ending, money- making schemes. Details of Enron's schemes are weaved with the mercurial personalities who architected them, against the economic, political, and technological landscape of the late 90s. Amazon.ca 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

UPC: 065935221128

EAN: 0065935221128

Languages: English

Binding: DVD

Item Condition: UsedVeryGood