Based on and named after the bestseller book Smartest Guys in the Room, this documentary provides an insightful look into the scandalous fall of Enron Corp. There are no actors in this documentary and yet it is dramatic. Such were the factors leading to the `amazing rise and scandalous fall’ of Enron that even a documentary featuring events preceding that historic day in December 2001, when Enron filed for the largest bankruptcy in the corporate US history, seems like a tale of epic imagination.
This documentary is neither as detailed nor as insightful as the book, but it does a great job of providing an insightful and reasonably detailed account of the Enron saga. Overall, it is not of any incremental value for the people who have read the book. However, if you can’t go through 464 pages, this does a great job of enlightening you on the drama that Enron was.
Cast
- Bethany McLean — Fortune reporter; co-author, The Smartest Guys in the Room
- Peter Elkind — co-author, The Smartest Guys in the Room
- Mike Muckleroy — former Enron executive
- Amanda Martin — former Enron executive
- Charles Wickman — former Enron trader
- John Beard — former Enron accountant
- Bill Lerach — attorney for Enron stockholders