
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
It’s Just Business.
A documentary about the Enron corporation, its faulty and corrupt business practices, and how they led to its fall.
- 7.2
- 2005
- Released
- 1h 50m

Peter Coyote
Narrator
John Beard
Self
Jim Chanos
Self
Dick Cheney
Self
Carol Coale
Self
Gray Davis
Self
Reggie Dees II
Self
Joseph Dunn
Self
Max Eberts
Self
Peter Elkind
Self
David Freeman
Self
Philip Hilder
Self
Al Kaseweter
Self
Bill Lerach
Self
Loretta Lynch
Self
Amanda Martin-Brock
Self
Bethany McLean
Self
Mike Muckleroy
Self
James Nutter
Self
John Olson
Self
David V. Porter
Self
Nancy Rapoport
Self
Harvey Rosenfield
Self
Mimi Swartz
Self
Robert Traband
Self
Sherron Watkins
Self
Henry Waxman
Self
Andrew Weissmann
Self
Colin Whitehead
Self
Charles Wickman
Self
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Self
Tim Belden
Self (archive footage)
Bill Clinton
Self (archive footage)
Fritz Hollings
Self (archive footage)
Carl Levin
Self (archive footage)
Released
en
- #corruption
- #capitalism
- #bankrupt
- #wall street
- #scandal
- #securities, stocks and bonds
- #economics
- #financial crisis
- #stock market
- #corporation
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Reviews

From the start the documentary makes it clear that it's a hit-piece. It has a clear agenda it's pushing and the film makers don't hold back on telling the public that, yes, Enron was evil. However, honestly, despite that it was pretty fair. It actually made more of a point to detail how Enron got to the place that brought convictions rather than doing a straight hit-piece on the corporation.
I'm surprised by the how often this movie is recommended on forums I frequent online, and the corresponding glowing Rotten Tomatoes reviews. I found the storytelling to be inconsistently paced, and there was nearly no depth to the description of actually how the fraud was perpetrated. The tie-in to California was interesting and I appreciated all of the primary content they were able to use -- com











