Apparently, the new Enron documentary is knocking 'em dead at Sundance.
With moonlight drenching the ski slopes outside the theater Saturday night, a collection of about 150 viewers, many with connections to the film, watched the premiere of the nearly two-hour distillation of the people-driven saga of the Houston company.While paparazzi scoured Main Street for a look at Elijah Wood, Lisa Kudrow, Michael Keaton and Sidney Poitier, the stars of the documentary Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, are ex-Chairman Ken Lay and ex-CEO Jeff Skilling. That's the way director/producer/writer Alex Gibney wanted it. "Jeff Skilling plays Jeff Skilling," Gibney said.
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The picture, with multiple screenings that sold out quickly here, is by no means all fun. It soberly deals with mark-to-market accounting, rank-and-yank management style and the heartbreak of an Oregon electrical lineman whose company Enron swallowed and whose $348,000 retirement stockpile collapsed into a $1,200 shadow of itself.
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It'll be at least late April before the movie opens in theaters.
Then a national audience will get to see this overview of the scandal made more amusing with a clip of Homer Simpson on a roller coaster called Enron's Ride of Broken Dreams, Marilyn Manson music backing footage of wild motorcycle rides like those Enron's executives used to take, and the by-now-obligatory topless-club footage thanks to the ex-exec who married a stripper.
How much must your life suck if your job is to scour "Main Street for a look at Elijah Wood, Lisa Kudrow, Michael Keaton...."
Lisa Kudrow? Michael Keaton? How desparate for a paycheck would you be to stand outside in the Rockies in January to see if you can catch a glimpse and photo of Phoebe and Mr. Mom?
Posted by: Patrick on January 26, 2005 10:46 AMOh, I so echo your hope for a WayneDo appearance. He is way more than qualified to interview strippers.
Posted by: Ellen on January 28, 2005 1:06 PM