Boiler Room (film)

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Boiler Room

DVD cover
Directed by Ben Younger
Produced by Jennifer Todd
Suzanne Todd
Written by Ben Younger
Starring Giovanni Ribisi
Vin Diesel
Nia Long
Nicky Katt
Ron Rifkin
Ben Affleck
Tom Everett Scott
Scott Caan
Distributed by New Line Cinema
Running time 118 mins
Country Flag of the United States United States
Budget US$9,000,000
IMDb profile

Boiler Room is a 2000 U.S. drama, written and directed by Ben Younger, and starring Giovanni Ribisi, Vin Diesel and Nia Long. Other characters in the film were played by Ben Affleck, Nicky Katt, Scott Caan, Tom Everett Scott (who also starred in That Thing You Do! with Ribisi), Ron Rifkin and Jamie Kennedy. The film reunited Giovanni Ribisi and Vin Diesel who both had supporting roles in Saving Private Ryan.

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[edit] Plot

The film takes a look at the world of "boiler room" (seedy, dishonorable) brokerage firms. The film centers around college dropout Seth Davis (Ribisi), a budding underground casino owner in Queens whose life turns upside down when offered employment at J.T. Marlin, a less-than-reputable brokerage firm. Davis' opposition to his disapproving federal judge father drives the plot as Davis goes deeper into the operation at J.T. Marlin than he'd like, learning how the firm scams its clients. The company is a chop shop brokerage firm that runs a "pump and dump", using its brokers to create artificial demand in pumping up the price of an IPO of a fake company. Though since it is a fake company, it is technically a ponzi scheme. Once the price rises, the firm sells its stake and cashes in. Its earnings are used in yet another IPO. Marlin trained their own brokers as to take advantage of their ignorance. When Seth winds up finding out that the Feds are on his case, he realizes he needs to get out, and needs to try and help one customer who couldn't really afford to be scammed in the first place.

The DVD release includes an alternate ending that implies a rampage massacre in the final scene by the aforementioned financially disgruntled victim in the story.

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[edit] Analysis

The film is often compared to Glengarry Glen Ross and Wall Street, and both movies are quoted -- by name and with lines of dialogue -- by characters in the film, and in one instance a whole scene (from Wall Street) is recited by the characters as they watch it on video. Alec Baldwin's character in Glengarry is often quoted by Ben Affleck's character.

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The following songs are played throughout the movie:

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