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Enron - L'economia della truffa

Titolo originale: Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
  • 2005
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  • 1h 50min
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Enron - L'economia della truffa (2005)
A documentary about the Enron corporation, its faulty and corrupt business practices, and how they led to its fall.
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Aggiungi una trama nella tua linguaA documentary about the Enron corporation, its faulty and corrupt business practices, and how they led to its fall.A documentary about the Enron corporation, its faulty and corrupt business practices, and how they led to its fall.A documentary about the Enron corporation, its faulty and corrupt business practices, and how they led to its fall.

  • Regia
    • Alex Gibney
  • Sceneggiatura
    • Alex Gibney
    • Bethany McLean
    • Peter Elkind
  • Star
    • John Beard
    • Tim Belden
    • Barbara Boxer
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  • VALUTAZIONE IMDb
    7,6/10
    20.766
    LA TUA VALUTAZIONE
    • Regia
      • Alex Gibney
    • Sceneggiatura
      • Alex Gibney
      • Bethany McLean
      • Peter Elkind
    • Star
      • John Beard
      • Tim Belden
      • Barbara Boxer
    • 49Recensioni degli utenti
    • 52Recensioni della critica
  • Vedi le informazioni sulla produzione su IMDbPro
    • Candidato a 1 Oscar
      • 3 vittorie e 11 candidature totali

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    John Beard
    • Self - Former Enron Accountant
    Tim Belden
    • Self
    • (filmato d'archivio)
    Barbara Boxer
    Barbara Boxer
    • Self
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    George W. Bush
    George W. Bush
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    James Chanos
    James Chanos
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    Dick Cheney
    Dick Cheney
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    Bill Clinton
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    Carol Coale
    • Self - Ex-Stock Analyst, Prudential Securities
    Peter Coyote
    Peter Coyote
    • Narrator
    Gray Davis
    Gray Davis
    • Self - Former Governor of California
    Reggie Dees II
    • Self - Young man the stripper dances in front of
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    Joseph Dunn
    • Self - California State Senator
    Max Eberts
    Max Eberts
    • Self - Former Spokesman, Enron Energy Services
    Peter Elkind
    Peter Elkind
    • Self - Co-Author, 'The Smartest Guys in the Room'
    Andrew Fastow
    Andrew Fastow
    • Self
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    David Freeman
    • Self - Former Advisor to Governor Davis
    Philip Hilder
    • Self
    Al Kaseweter
    • Self
    • Regia
      • Alex Gibney
    • Sceneggiatura
      • Alex Gibney
      • Bethany McLean
      • Peter Elkind
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    8blanche-2

    I hope Ken Lay is somewhere hot

    I agree with previous posts: "Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room" is right up there with the biggest horror films of our time. And this one is scarier because it's real.

    It's hard to say what boggles the mind most:

    the complicity of Arthur Andersen, the banks, and the traders in this elaborate scheme of making a failing company look profitable;

    the fact that the executives cashed out their stock at high prices and froze the employees' stock accessibility until it was worth nothing;

    the derisive laughter of the traders over the Enron-caused blackouts in California ("let them fall into the ocean - let them use candles);

    that Lu Pi, a guy who ran a failing Enron company, left that company with $250 million in his pocket;

    or the fact that Ken Lay died before they could convict him of anything. Take your pick, it's all disgusting.

    When one of the California power companies called Enron and said there was a fire in the plant, the trader chuckled and said, "Burn, baby, burn."

    That sums up Enron's, the banks, the traders', and Arthur Andersen's attitude toward the common man - burn, baby, burn. Let's hope that's what Ken Lay is doing right now.

    This is a great documentary even if you don't understand business. The only part I didn't quite get were these dummy corporations that Flatow started up to hide Enron's losses which were then invested in by the banks.

    That was a little complicated, but you'd think someone would have realized that the CFO of Enron running companies that were supposedly selling to Enron was a conflict of interest. Funny, no bank picked it up. They won't give you a mortgage, but they'll pay a fortune to a dummy corporation.

    Probably my favorite part was the mark to market accounting system employed by Enron and signed off on by Arthur Andersen. I have no understanding of a reliable accounting firm allowing such a thing.

    In other words, if I have a book proposal, I can report a profit of, say, $30,000 on the book even though it isn't sold and I haven't seen a dime. And one wonders how they cooked their books. With help, that's how.
    10lee_eisenberg

    corporate fraud reigns supreme

    When Enron filed for bankruptcy at the end of 2001, it was a shock to most Americans. But as "Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room" shows, it shouldn't have been. The documentary, narrated by Peter Coyote, traces the energy giant's origins - including CEO Ken Lay's childhood - to its rise as one of the largest corporations in the United States.

    What's really interesting is the intricacy of Enron's actions around the world, and how it pulled off all its shenanigans (aided, of course, by Kenny Boy's contributions to George W. Bush's first presidential campaign). Among Enron's more vicious acts was its manipulation of California's electricity in summer, 2001, and how Arnold Schwarzenegger let the company off the hook. Not to mention that Enron's collapse was accompanied by Lay's draining of the employees' retirement.

    Enron's downfall - followed over the next year by the implosions of Adelphia, WorldCom and Tyco - just goes to show the dangers of letting corporations run rampant. The whole way through, the documentary manages to be funny, just at the sight of what Enron was doing, abetted by Arthur Andersen.

    All in all, I definitely recommend "E:TSGITR".

    PS: In "Bowling for Columbine", Michael Moore proposed a TV show called "Corporate Cops" (based on "Cops!"), in which people like Ken Lay would get strip-searched.
    8EUyeshima

    Unfettered Hubris Drives Intriguing Account of Enron Scandal

    Even after reading Kurt Eichenwald's "Conspiracy of Fools: A True Story", I was not prepared for the near-Greek tragedy presented in this smartly produced documentary of the Enron scandal based on yet another book by journalists Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind. Directed by Andy Gibney, the 2005 film follows the complicated rise and fall of Enron in an easy-to-follow, chronological order since the mid-1980's, using actor Peter Coyote's lucid voice-over narration. Enron started as a moderate-sized Houston gas-pipeline company that grew exponentially, reaping benefits for shareholders and far more so for the Enron executive team for a long, uninterrupted stretch. Billions of dollars were collected due to speculative mark-to-market accounting techniques approved by the SEC, and Enron consequently became one of the world's largest natural-gas suppliers.

    What resonates most from this searing film is how circumstantially pathological the chief villains are in this true corporate morality story. While the infamous Ken Lay comes across as the corrupt figurehead we have already come to know through news reports, it's really Enron CFO Andy Fastow (dubbed appropriately "The Sorcerer's Apprentice") and especially President and COO Jeff Skilling, who are mercilessly exposed here. Skilling is portrayed as a brilliant leader and a corporate Darwinist, whose favorite book is Richard Dawkins' "The Selfish Gene", which he apparently translated into a bloodless performance review policy that worked like a genetic algorithm for people. Employees were rated on a 1-5 scale based on the amount of money one made for the company. Skilling mandated that between 10-15% of employees had to be rated as 5's (worst). And to get a rating of 5 meant that one was immediately fired. This review process was dubbed "rank and yank". Such was a typical example of his survivalist thinking.

    The corruption spread throughout the company, as Enron was responsible for, among other things, gaming the Northern California "rolling blackouts" in 2001, whereby the company profited as huge parts of the state were plunged into darkness. Citizens were threatened by a deregulation plan that essentially enabled a number of immoral Enron traders (led by Tim Belden) to place calls that drove up energy-market prices and took advantage of power-plant shutdowns. Of course, the Bush family dynasty does not come across unscathed in the Enron story and justifiably so according to their inextricable ties to Lay. Gibney effectively uses video footage from testimony at congressional hearings, as well as interviews with disillusioned former employees such as Mike Muckleroy and whistle-blower Sherron Watkins (who uses some effective pop culture references like "Body Heat" and Jonestown to get her points across).

    There are some amusing vignettes and images that tie some of the disparate elements together with excessive glibness. The documentary is best when it sticks to the facts, for this is one inarguable case where fact is truly stranger than fiction. Extras are plentiful on the 2006 DVD. Gibney provides an informative albeit verbose commentary track, and four deleted scenes, about twenty minutes in total, are included that become redundant with the film's portrayal of corporate malfeasance. There is also a fourteen-minute making-of featurette, as well as a "Where Are They Now?" snippet on the principals and three separate conversations with McLean and Elkind on how they got the story, how they validated their findings, and their enthusiastic reaction to the film. Other bonus materials include Gibney reading from scripts of skits performed at Enron and a Firesign Theater sketch about Enron's demise, as well as Fortune Magazine articles written by McLean and Elkind and a gallery of editorial cartoons.
    rogerdarlington

    Even more chilling now

    Enron was the US energy company that "Fortune" named as "America's Most Innovative Company" for six consecutive years and, at its height, it employed 22,000 people and claimed revenues of around $100 billion. It went bankrupt at the end of 2001 and this documentary was released in 2005, but I did not see it until four years later. By then, we had experienced 'the end of capitalism as we've known it' and the most serious collapse in financial markets since the Wall Street Crash. What Enron and the wider market crash have in common is the murky world of derivatives, an excessive exuberance for risk, and simple avarice and hubris, while the mother and father of both crises are deregulation.

    Alex Gibney co-wrote, co-produced and directed this work which, though occasionally complex, is compelling viewing and a lesson to us all on corporate greed and regulatory failure. Interviews with key observers and extracts from Congressional hearings are linked by a narration from Peter Coyote. The heroines of the story are Bethany McLean, the financial journalist who first questioned the valuation of Enron, and Sherron Watkins, the senior manager who blew the whistle on the company. The villains are a long list of men headed by Enron Chairman Kenneth Lay and Chief Executive Jeffrey Skilling. Maybe there is a gender lesson here as well - as many financial and political ones.
    8lightdee

    Fascinating documentary - never a dull moment - too bad the trial results are missing

    A very interesting expose on the greed, hubris, lies, etc. that brought Enron down. This film is well-done and digs up a lot of dirt. The PBS viewing showed a little clip after the film which discussed the strange trial results, which was probably the biggest problem with the film - it pretty much ends with the bankruptcy of enron and doesn't show much about the trials, since they took place later, although they would make for a great inclusion. To me, the most incredible part of the film is that fact that these guys would stand up every day and tell bold-faced lies to the employees, the government, the investors, and make it all sound good. They had to be thinking in the back of their head "it's all going to come crashing down someday"...

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