Alex Gibney takes a notorious tale of corporate greed and plays it as Greek tragedy, Texas-style.
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
It’s just business.
2005 · 1h 50m · R
Documentary
Directed by
Alex Gibney
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Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
Overview
A documentary about the Enron corporation, its faulty and corrupt business practices, and how they led to its fall.
Director and cast
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Top critics, in their words
Deft, entertaining and infuriating documentary about one of the most egregious cases of corporate corruption in American history.
A meticulously researched and ably handled chronicle of one of the largest corporate scandals in American history.
This thorough and thoroughly depressing account of the biggest corporate bankruptcy in history, and the rip-off that accompanied it, is so infuriating and dispiriting that your blood will boil, if not properly watered down.
It's not an indictment, so much. It's more like a mirror.
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