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Because the movie revolves around the underling's ups and downs, Mike Farrell as Ken Lay is also mostly wasted in a largely two-dimensional role, giving pep talks to the troops about the stock even as he was dumping it. Government investigations so far have led to guilty pleas of three Enron officials and the indictment of Fastow, who pleaded innocent in November to charges including fraud and conspiracy.Īlthough public outrage over the Enron debacle was fanned by other corporate misconduct also affecting stocks, retirement funds and jobs, attention has been shouldered aside by the prospect of war and other issues.I had heard about this movie before. This euphemism called deregulation allowed these people to run roughshod in any way they wanted," said Greenwald. Cooking the books, inflating the earnings, hiding the debt, buying off the watchdogs."Įxecutive producer Robert Greenwald said he was intent on showing that what happened at Enron was not the result of "one or two rotten apples who did bad things." The company continues in limited operation. There's hundreds of Enrons out there, a thousand. He doesn't excuse himself or other Enron executives. Blue," an unidentified Enron bigwig who issues a liquor-fueled indictment of, among others, banks, analysts and politicians after the company's December 2001 collapse. Here's Lay exhorting employees to buy slumping Enron stock, then putting in his sell order there's Skilling, questioned publicly by a skeptical shareholder, snidely replying, "Thanks for the advice, (expletive)."Įnron vice president Sherron Watkins - anointed one of Time magazine's Persons of the Year along with fellow whistleblowers Coleen Rowley of the FBI and Cynthia Cooper of WorldCom - is depicted giving a doomsday warning to Lay.ĭennehy plays "Mr. Top Enron executives Lay, Jeffrey Skilling and Andrew Fastow are seen only in passing, but in infamously vivid moments. In another scene, the auditors shoot at a miniature basketball hoop as Cruver wonders how faulty business practices could have been kept hidden. One scene has them intently staring at a computer terminal - they're scrutinizing golf swings. Supposedly overseeing the financial circus are in-house Arthur Andersen auditors, who are played for laughs in "The Crooked E." Managers are paid upfront bonuses on a deal's projected 10-year profits - which the managers themselves have calculated. There are brief allusions to chairman Kenneth Lay's and Enron's association with President Bush.Ī reference to Enron's "virtual assets" gives Cruver pause, but he quickly jumps into the brutish competition that demands results, however achieved, and rewards them in absurd measure. It doesn't take long for Cruver to suspect there's something rotten in Houston, although Enron and its off-kilter "E" logo (redesigned in the movie for copyright reasons) are standing tall with most investors, politicians and media. It's a sort of 21st century "Love Story" subplot, with corporate sickness instead of disease threatening young love.)
(In a detour from the book, which briefly mentions Cruver's wife, the movie depicts his home life as threatened by his newly adopted Enron mores. Cruver finds himself tumbling down Enron's rabbit hole into a realm where integrity is touted but dubious dealmaking and bookkeeping are rewarded.