Amanda Martin-Brock, Andrew Fastow, Andy Fastow
This is the inside story of one of history's greatest business scandals, in which top executives of America's seventh largest company walked away with more than one billion dollars while investors and...( read more
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DVD Release Date: January 17, 2006
Stats: 928 reviews
The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron
A dramatized crime story of how Enron became one of the largest corporations in America. Its like listening to a news coverage with dramatizations mixed with some funky sounds from the millenium.
Watching this will either make you g...( read more)
this movie made me even more righteously angry against the Bush administration.
A very interesting doc about the rise and fall of Enron, and ethics in business. A cautionary tale, to be sure. Well-researched and edited.
a well presented docu-flick showing big business for what it really is and exposing all of capitalisms faults. it's the same in any business. when are people going to wake up and smell the reality? the most interesting part is how one of the lower down in the chain fraudsters end...( read more)
Wow, how to wreck thousands of peoples lievelihoods and not give a s**t. The greed of the top bosses will make you mad.
Watching it after the Bernard Madoff affair and the UK MPs expenses scandal of last year makes it even more depressing.
No one has learnt a thing about busin...( read more)
Very interesting, and quite shocking, although it is a little prosaic, especially toward the beginning. The whole thing with the rolling blackouts was almost too insane to believe.
very interesting look at what happened or might of happened within enron. i don't think it went deep enough into exactly what and who knew what but a good overview.
Not everyones cup of tea but I really njoyed this documentry and wrote a paper on in it college
Gibney's documentary is ultimately not about business and numbers but about morality; how a group of people, blinded by money, lost their souls. full review
No matter what your politics, Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room will make you mad. full review
You might expect this film to be mildly informative; coming out you'll feel you've seen the horror movie of the year. full review
The documentary cannot be called muckraking, as the muck has already been well-raked, but Gibney's recounting has a touch of playful sadism that I quite enjoyed. full review
Alex Gibney's riveting documentary is a rape story, with the public trust as the victim. full review
This cinematic scrutiny of runaway corporate greed reveals the nightmarish rapaciousness of those who engineered the fraud. full review
This sober, informative chronicle of the biggest business scandal of the decade is almost indecently entertaining. full review
Light on new evidence but impressively comprehensive in scope. full review
I'm really surprised why this has such a low rating on this site. Dare I suspect it was ... too smart for its own good and confused people with its tale of numbers? That's what the Enron execs were hoping would lead to their defense in their federal trials: a jury would be too confused. This is a very well-made film that will help educate people about the corporate scandal of our times.
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