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Boiler Room
2000
A supercharged ride through the cutthroat world of illegal stock selling, BOILER ROOM is fueled by an electric hip-hop soundtrack. Ribisi portrays Seth Davis, a college dropout who thinks he's going straight when he takes a job at J.T. Marlin, a stock firm located in Long Island. Seth wants nothing more than to be loved and .. Read more
| Starring | Giovanni Ribisi, Ben Affleck, Vin Diesel, Nia Long |
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| Director | Ben Younger |
| Genres | Drama |
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Boiler Room
A supercharged ride through the cutthroat world of illegal stock selling, BOILER ROOM is fueled by an electric hip-hop soundtrack. Ribisi portrays Seth Davis, a college dropout who thinks he's going straight when he takes a job at J.T. Marlin, a stock firm located in Long Island. Seth wants nothing more than to be loved and respected by his father, a revered judge. As he learns the ropes and begins to make waves within the company, he discovers that J.T. Marlin might be a bogus operation after all. A last attempt at redeeming himself threatens to land both him and his father in jail. Younger's film is an adrenaline rush of a motion picture.
| Starring | Giovanni Ribisi, Ben Affleck, Vin Diesel, Nia Long, Nicky Katt, Scott Caan, Ron Rifkin, Taylor Nichols, Tom Everett Scott, Jamie Kennedy, David Younger |
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| Director | Ben Younger |
| Studio | ENTERTAINMENT IN VIDEO |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 55 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Drama |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Subtitles | DVD: English |
| Released | DVD: 02 Oct 2000 Production year: 2000 |
| Format | DVD |
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Critics' reviews (6)
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Welcome to Wall Street: the Next Generation, an amorality tale of financial swizz-kids who think lunch is for wimps and for whom greed is still good. The film focuses on a young chancer (Giovanni Ribisi) who joins an “off-Broadway” brokerage firm that offers sky-high paycheques to successful agents. Fuelled by equal measures of drink, drugs, adrenalin and Boys' Own testosterone, the young fiends of the firm's high-pressure “boiler room” are an obnoxious bunch. But their scenes rival anything in Wall Street or Glengarry Glen Ross, two films to which this movie pays open homage. Writer/director Ben Younger worked in a real-life “boiler room” to research the film, and the result is a dynamite debut. There's great acting, too, from Ribisi, Vin Diesel and Ben Affleck, who plays the firm's Mr Motivator.
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A study in high pressure salesmanship that updates Wall Street and Glengarry Glenn Ross without quite matching the verve or guilty fascination of either.
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9 out of 10 people found this review helpful
Diesel-powered boiler burns out
Boiler Room is a blistering film which manages to make phones n finance seem more exciting than guns n ammo. It also has a surprising amount of heart, particularly in the candid and heartfelt depiction of the main character's desperation to win his father's respect. My only gripe with Boiler Room is that the ending is overly abrupt and totally unsatisfying, which is why I'd give it 3 stars rather than 4.
By the way, Vin Diesel is mighty in this film. He should put away his muscles more often. -
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7 out of 7 people found this review helpful
Educational
These Boiler Room outfits do actually operate so this film is worth watching just to give you an insight into their methods. Apart from that it is a fairly gripping story with some great performances from major stars. Worth watching - If you are ever contacted out of the blue by someone trying to sell you shares, ask if the shares are restricted and what exchange they are traded on? They will be restricted ie you have to keep them 12 months and they will be trading on some obscure exchange such as the pink list!
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Boiler Room
A supercharged ride through the cutthroat world of illegal stock selling, BOILER ROOM is fueled by an electric hip-hop soundtrack. Ribisi portrays Seth Davis, a college dropout who thinks he's going straight when he takes a job at J.T. Marlin, a stock firm located in Long Island. Seth wants nothing ...
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