Saturday, April 23. 2005
Movie Trailer: Enron - The Smartest Guys in the Room
| For all of those who were fascinated/puzzled by the Enron debacle, the upcoming movie "Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room" is for you. The documentary relies heavily on the research of Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind who wrote the book: The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron. Judging from the trailer, it looks like a very well done movie. James Berardinelli has a good review of the movie as well as Metacritic. {The official site is also up}. Even though it has been more almost three years since the scandal first unfolded, I still find it unbelievable (and infuriating) the vast amount of greed and arrogance in what used to be the seventh largest company, that not only caused rolling blackouts in California, but also manage to fool some of the best minds in the country as well. When Enron finally went bust, the aftershocks were felt far and wide. From the Arthur Anderson LLP Consulting firm (which may never fully recover from the blow) to the thousands of employees who lost entire pensions, life savings and 401Ks. The real question to ask is: "How different was/is Enron from many of the other Fortune 500 companies (still) out there?" |  |
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