ENRON: The Smartest Guys in the Room

(not rated, 109 minutes, really good!)

August 6 & 7 at 1:30; August 8 at 6:30

Based on the best-selling book of the same name by Fortune reporters Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind, a multidimensional study of one of the biggest business scandals in American history. The chronicle takes a look at one of the greatest corporate disasters in history, in which top executives from the 7th largest company in this country walked away with over one billion dollars, leaving investors and employees with nothing (timeline). The film features insider accounts and rare corporate audio and video tapes that reveal colossal personal excesses of the Enron hierarchy and the utter moral vacuum that posed as corporate philosophy. The human drama that unfolds within Enron’s walls resembles a Greek tragedy and produces a domino effect that could shape the face of our economy and ethical code for years to come.

[NOTE: We also showed Turtles Can Fly in August of 2005, although it never got the web treatment these other titles received. It should have. It certainly should have and I regret that it didn’t. It did, however get half of a flyer we made for these two August shows. It is available in a PDF. -Greg]