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Enron: the Smartest Guys in the Room (2005) |
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This solid but not over-imaginatively assembled documentary tells how Enron, one of the mightiest and most well-regarded corporations on Wall Street (and therefore the world), was revealed to be a house of cards — built on greed, deceit and political opportunism. Alex Gibney's film is based on a bestseller co-written by Bethany McLean, who was the first reporter to break the scandal of Enron's misdeeds after she simply looked at the balance sheet and suggested the emperor might be a little lacking in attire. It traces how top executives Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling manipulated the energy market, embezzled employee pension funds and engineered the Californian “energy crisis” to push up the price of electricity. As Gibney painstakingly unpacks the facts through charts and interviews, you certainly won't need a business degree to understand what went wrong.
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Enron: Rise and Fall
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