Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room

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Release Date: April 29, 2005 (limited)

On DVD/VOD: January 31, 2006

1h 50m | Documentary

The inside story of one of history's greatest business scandals, in which top executives of America's 7th largest company walked away with over one billion dollars while investors and employees lost everything. The almost unimaginable personal excesses of the Enron hierarchy and the utter moral vacuum that posed as corporate philosophy are revealed. The film comes to a harrowing dénouement as we hear Enron traders' own voices as they wring hundreds of millions of dollars in profits out of the California energy crisis. As a result, we come to understand how the avarice of Enron's traders and their bosses had a shocking and profound domino effect that may shape the face of our economy for years to come.

Based on the best-selling book The Smartest Guys in the Room by Fortune reporters Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind.