Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
Alex Gibney, 2005
The Smartest Guys in the Room
Bethany McLean, 2003
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room is a documentary directed by Alex Gibney in 2005 and based on the book The Smartest Guys in the Room by Bethany McLean, first published in 2003. The documentary features John Beard, Tim Belden, Barbara Boxer, George W. Bush, James Chanos, Dick Cheney, and others.
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“The movie is better than the book”
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Storyline
Enron dives from the seventh largest US company to bankruptcy in less than a year in this tale told chronologically. Along the way, we watch Enron game California’s deregulated electricity market, get a free pass from Arthur Andersen, use greed to manipulate banks and brokerages, and hear from both Presidents Bush what great guys these are.
Movie vs Book
Year
2005
Minutes
110
Movie Rate
7.60
Source: IMDb
Movie
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
Director: Alex Gibney
Country: USA
Year: 2005
Length: 1h50m
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Year
2003
Pages
480
Book Rate
8.42
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Book
The Smartest Guys in the Room
Subtitle: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron
Author: Bethany McLean
Country: USA
First published in: 2003
Length: 480 pages
Genre: Non Fiction
User polls & recommendations
“I had to unlearn a lot of novelistic stuff to do a screenplay.”
RICHARD PRICE (Writer, Scriptwriter)
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