Boiler Room (film)

Risk - The Fastest Way to Wealth (Original Title: Boiler Room ) is an American thriller from 2000, directed by Ben Younger, who also wrote the screenplay..

Action

New York City: Seth Davis breaks his college degree from Queens College to operate an illegal casino in his apartment. For his father, the Judge Marty Davis, Seth has a strained relationship, learns even more than this from the casino of his son. In order to impress his father, he followed a friend's advice and takes a job as a stockbroker in financial firms JT Marlin, which makes above-average profits. The atmosphere of the Unternehemns is characterized by unrestrained greed but also of camaraderie between the brokers. Davis falls in love with the attraltive Secretary, on the his boss has an eye thrown.

Davis worked initially as an assistant to a broker, but soon rises up in the corporate hierarchy and will even broker. First, he wonders why the young broker can make fabulous profits and how is it possible that he deserves more than the established brokerages. To these questions he gets from the chiefs no answers. However, in the course of his career, he learns that the company is working with illegal methods. In the context of cold calling shares for fictitious companies to investors are sold, which are thus cheated out of their money. Similarly, the company works on the pump-and -dump scheme: the company's shares of companies in which JT Martin himself holds a majority of the shares to be sold and the stock price is driven artificially high. J. T. Then sold Martin the shares at a high price and the share price falls through the floor. The investor may lose the Great part of their investment.

To a very large - and illegal - to be able to conclude business, he asks his father for help. This says reluctantly and a little later arrested by the FBI, the activities of JT Marlin for some time monitored. In order to protect his father from prosecution, Davis is working with the FBI and give them some evidence on the work of the company.

The FBI then arrested by Seth on all employees of JT Marlin.

Reviews

Roger Ebert wrote in the Chicago Sun - Times, 18 February 2000, the film acts like real life, which was observed at close range ("The movie Has the high - octane feel of real life, Closely observed" ). Among his most pages belong to the tension -laden relationship between Seth Davis and his father. The illustrations are good. Ebert criticized the end that " artificial " WOULD; However, he certified the film " voltage " and the ability to captivate the audience.

Emanuel Levy wrote in the magazine Variety, the illustrated "naive philosophy " was disappointing.

The lexicon of international film wrote, Risk - The fastest way to wealth was a " respectable debut film ". He tries, " to grapple with the phenomenon of booming equity business, especially its dark side " and display " immature people as unscrupulous as the self- purposive making money ."

Awards

Giovanni Ribisi and Ben Affleck were nominated in 2000 for the Teen Choice Award. The film was nominated in 2000 for Best Foreign Language Film for the British Independent Film Award. Ben Younger was awarded a special prize of the 2000 Deauville Film Festival and was nominated for another award this festival.

Ben Younger and film producers were nominated for Best Debut Film Independent Spirit Award in 2001; another nomination for this award was Ben Younger as a screenwriter. Nia Long was nominated for the 2001 Black Reel Award.

Background

  • The film was shot in New York City and on Long Iceland. Its production costs amounted to an estimated 9 million U.S. dollars. The world premiere took place at the Sundance Film Festival on January 30, 2000. The film was released in the United States, in which he grossed about 16.9 million U.S. dollars on 18 February 2000. Worldwide he played a $ 28.7 million at the box office.
  • Originally called the film Boiler Room, an expression which is in English for a dubious company in the caller under poor working conditions peddle inferior shares to gullible customers, with manipulative sales techniques are used.
  • The film, like The Wolf of Wall Street ( 2013) inspired by the career of Jordan Belfort.
  • In the film, the protagonists take to the movies Glengarry Glen Ross and Wall Street reference.
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