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	Boiler Room - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Boiler Room's dialogue has also been compared (not always favorably) to that of David Mamet, and the film's combination of fresh acting talent, sharp dialogue, and its earnest, if not altogether original, indictment of avarice in the American workplace earned it a largely warm reception from critics.
		Boiler Room is a 2000 U.S. drama/ thriller film, written and directed by Ben Younger, and starring Giovanni Ribisi, Vin Diesel and Nia Long.
		The film is often compared to Glengarry Glen Ross and Wall Street - both movies are explicitly quoted by characters in the film, and in one instance a whole scene (from Wall Street) is recited verbatim as the characters watch it on video.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Boiler_Room (330 words)

	Boiler Room
		While women may be turned off by the male-centered nature of this film, Boiler Room stands as a film that gives insight into the minds of its characters while still being entertaining, and I highly recommend it.
		Boiler Room might be a film that female viewers won't quite understand.
		But once inside the house he sees the truth as he walks through several completely empty rooms before finding several of his friends sitting on one couch staring at a big screen TV.
	www.vacuumboy9.com /moviereviews/boilerroom.html (735 words)

	DVDFILE.COM: BOILER ROOM review
		Directing his first feature film, BOILER ROOM is a rather impressive directorial debut for Ben Younger, who also wrote the screenplay.
		Thankfully, BOILER ROOM lives up to their past work and is yet another winner.
		While some may say BOILER ROOM is little more than a junior-league WALL STREET, it has sharp style, agile direction and a strong cast.
	www.dvdfile.com /software/review/dvd-video_2/boilerroom.htm (1138 words)

	Qwipster's Movie Reviews - Boiler Room
		Wtih it's terrific showcase of unheard of talent and unique ideas on the state of business and corruption, BOILER ROOM is one of the better films of 2000.
		In addition to Younger's skills, BOILER ROOM sports a good set of young actors, especially Ribisi in the starring role of Seth.
		Probably the best performance and most crucial performance in the film, however comes from the veteran actor Ron Rifkin as the film's moral center of the judge and father.
	www.qwipster.net /boilerroom.html (329 words)

	Boiler Room Movie Review by Anthony Leong
		In "Boiler Room", the film's narrator and protagonist, a college dropout by the name of Seth Davis (Giovanni Ribisi of "The Mod Squad"), likens the business of buying and selling shares to the illicit drug trade.
		"Boiler Room" is also a film of memorable performances, and there is scarcely a bad one to be found here.
		It may be premature to be making such declarations so early in the year, but "Boiler Room" would be a strong candidate for being one of the top ten films of 2000.
	www.mediacircus.net /boilerroom.html (865 words)

	Boiler Room
		Movie 'Boiler Room' Wins 'Thumbs Up' from Top State Securities Cop; NASAA President Skolnik Commends Film's Realism, Cautionary Message.
		Movie 'Boiler Room' Wins 'Thumbs Up' From Top State Securities Cop -NASAA President Skolnik Commends Film's Realism, Cautionary Message-.
		FAMILY FINANCE: Don't let boiler burn you alive; As warnings go out about the latest tactics being used by so-called boiler rooms to con both UK investors and small businesses, Jane Hall looks at how to avoid being reeled in.(Features)
	www.infoplease.com /ipea/A0801488.html (343 words)

	Phil Villarreal's ReView: Boiler Room www.azstarnet.com ®
		Such is the mentality of dropout Seth Davis (Giovanni Ribisi), the high-intensity protagonist of "Boiler Room," who quits his illegal home gambling business to join a questionable brokerage firm.
		Those are the lyrics, but the music — ritzy nights on the town, fist-pumping sales-closings in the boiler room and all the toys money can buy — tells a different story.
		The film is one of the ultimate guy flicks, with stinging insults, a rapid-paced story and a cast of actors who ooze machismo.
	www.azstarnet.com /sn/ent_index/110952 (632 words)

	BOILER ROOM; Giovanni Ribisi, Vin Diesel, Nia Long, CinemaSense.Com Review. Preciousness Rated.
		Though it explores the world of a mythical stock selling boiler room (a place where phone banks are set up to make sales calls), don’t expect this film to even closely deliver the character depth and despair of Glengarry Glen Ross, a 1992 cinematic exploration of a resort real estate scheme.
		In Boiler Room, Seth Davis is pressured by his father to quit the illegal gambling business he is running out of his apartment and to prove himself a man of success and integrity through a legitimate career.
		Boiler Room missed a unique chance to deliver a powerful message about the traps of the blind pursuit of money.
	www.cinemasense.com /Reviews/boiler_room.htm (868 words)

	Boiler Room. A Hollywood Jesus Visual Film Review.
		Boiler Room is a riveting expose of one of the biggest and most lucrative scams in American history - and a dramatic look at a generation obsessed with the speed of wealth and success.
		Boiler Room chronicles the rise and fall of Seth Davis (Giovanni Ribisi), an enterprising college drop-out who, determined to prove his worth to a demanding father, takes a job at a small brokerage firm.
		There, in the company’s "boiler room", where young men eager to earn their fortunes work the phones, Seth soon masters the art of the cold call and with his new job, begins to regain his father’s respect.
	www.hollywoodjesus.com /boiler_room.htm (838 words)

	village voice > film > Boiler Room; The Beach; Beautiful People by Amy Taubin
		village voice > film > Boiler Room; The Beach; Beautiful People by Amy Taubin
		Boiler Room picks away at the money-ruled mentality of the moment, which makes anyone who didn't seize the opportunity to make big bucks in the '90s now feel like a fool.
		Like Mean Streets and Goodfellas, Boiler Room takes us inside the consciousness and the coded masculine world of a single character.
	www.villagevoice.com /issues/0007/taubin.shtml (1115 words)

	DVDActive - Reviews - DVD - Boiler Room (AU - R4)
		Boiler Room doesn't hide the fact that the whole stockbroking-firm thing has been done before.
		Presented in 16:9 enhanced widescreen, Boiler Rooms looks nothing short of brilliant.
		With the testosterone on the overflow, this film is one for the boys, though Affleck, Diesel and Katt provide the eye candy for the ladies…
	www.dvdactive.com /reviews/dvd/boiler-room.html (771 words)

	Amazon.ca: Boiler Room (Widescreen): DVD
		The directorial debut of filmmaker Ben Younger, Boiler Room (2000) is a stylishly rendered drama that is perhaps overly indebted to several previous films, most notably the "greed is good" philosophy of Wall Street (1987).
		Boiler Room was just another film thrown up to target a young audience.
		Although Younger acknowledges his inspiration with a scene paying homage to Oliver Stone's anti-corporate treatise, Boiler Room is more of a Generation-X imitation than a serious reconsideration of the same subject matter.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0780631536 (1586 words)

	SoundtrackNet : Boiler Room Soundtrack
		In a film that could be described as Wall Street meets The Firm, Boiler Room focuses on Seth (Giovanni Ribisi) who gives up his small-time gambling racket to work for a prestigious stock brokerage.
		The "Main Title" is a quick 30-second track that actually sounds like, well, some electronic pulses recorded in a boiler room.
		While the ending wasn't the most satisfying, Boiler Room did feature a rather enjoyable moody electronic score by DJ diva The Angel.
	www.soundtrack.net /soundtracks/database?id=2557 (347 words)

	Boiler Room (2000) Film Review - MovieWeb
		Later in the film, when receiving some instructions on how to cold-call potential customers, Seth is told to remember one of Baldwin's catch phrases from that scene, "A-B-C. Always Be Closing." Boiler Room also liberally references, both directly and indirectly, its direct predecessor in the "greed is good" category of filmmaking.
		Boiler Room tries to tell one of these stories, but sadly it fails to add much to the greed genre established by its two heavily referenced predecessors: Wall Street (1987) and Glengarry Glen Ross (1992).
		Boiler Room is the story of Seth (Ribisi), a 19-year-old college dropout obsessed with the American dream of easy money.
	movieweb.com /movies/reviews/review.php?film=1902&review=1101 (590 words)

	Boiler Room mistakes, goofs and bloopers
		If you get Boiler Room on DVD you'll see an original ending where Ribisi is thin all the way through the end of the movie; Because Giovanni was preparing for a film that required him to gain 30 something pounds, the scenes that needed to be reshot for a different ending are very defined.
		However, in the beginning of the movie it is clear that her desk is right outside of the trading room, on the same floor.
		Other: At the end of the movie after Seth talks to Chris in the stairwell, Seth goes down a flight of stairs and passes Abby at her desk.
	www.moviemistakes.com /film1533 (339 words)

	Boiler Room - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Boiler Room is a 2000 U.S. drama, written and directed by Ben Younger, and starring Giovanni Ribisi, Vin Diesel and Nia Long.
		One of Younger's former jobs was as a broker at a boiler room, where he witnessed firsthand the office tactics and procedures, which he soon realized were highly illegal.
		Boiler Room's dialogue has also been compared to that of David Mamet.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Boiler_Room (375 words)

	BOILER ROOM; Giovanni Ribisi, Vin Diesel, Nia Long, CinemaSense.Com Review. Preciousness Rated.
		Though it explores the world of a mythical stock selling boiler room (a place where phone banks are set up to make sales calls), don’t expect this film to even closely deliver the character depth and despair of Glengarry Glen Ross, a 1992 cinematic exploration of a resort real estate scheme.
		In Boiler Room, Seth Davis is pressured by his father to quit the illegal gambling business he is running out of his apartment and to prove himself a man of success and integrity through a legitimate career.
		Boiler Room missed a unique chance to deliver a powerful message about the traps of the blind pursuit of money.
	www.cinemasense.com /Reviews/boiler_room.htm (868 words)

	Amazon.ca: Boiler Room (Widescreen): DVD
		The directorial debut of filmmaker Ben Younger, Boiler Room (2000) is a stylishly rendered drama that is perhaps overly indebted to several previous films, most notably the "greed is good" philosophy of Wall Street (1987).
		Boiler Room was just another film thrown up to target a young audience.
		Although Younger acknowledges his inspiration with a scene paying homage to Oliver Stone's anti-corporate treatise, Boiler Room is more of a Generation-X imitation than a serious reconsideration of the same subject matter.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0780631536 (779 words)

	Boiler Room (2000): Giovanni Ribisi, Vin Diesel, Ben Affleck, Nia Long - PopMatters Film Review
		But while Boiler Room is running all this by you, showing you how pleasurable but also corruptive it is to spend endless money and time like frat boys might, another theme is simmering, right below the surface.
		As Seth tells it, he finds this way in "the boiler room," or more specifically, a fly-by-night Long Island brokerage firm named J.T. Marlin.
		The film doesn't pretend these guys are too smart: they get their asses whipped in a dissing context with a table full of gay men at an NYC restaurant.
	www.popmatters.com /film/reviews/b/boiler-room.shtml (1283 words)

	FILM REVIEW HH1/2: Boiler Room -- Risky Business
		FILM REVIEW HH1/2: Boiler Room -- Risky Business
		Boiler Room is told from the carefree, matter-of-fact point of view of Seth (Giovanni Ribisi), a recent college dropout, who earns his living rather successfully -- yet illegally -- running a casino out of his own home.
		Boiler Room is a verbally clever, fairly decent movie, by no means to be forgotten, but by most accounts, inconsequential.
	www-tech.mit.edu /V120/N6/Boiler_Room.6a.html (750 words)

	Boiler Room's Anachronistic Con Men James Surowiecki
		The new film Boiler Room has the trappings of our time--the hip-hop soundtrack, the kinetic camera, the awareness that if you want to explain something to someone, the quickest way to do it is to refer to a movie you've both seen--but its economics and its characters have almost nothing to do with the 1990s.
		Boiler Room's "brokers" spend their time peddling worthless stocks to people who have apparently never heard of the Internet or watched CNBC.
		One of the many good things about Boiler Room is that for the most part it seems aware of its own marginality, and tries not to be a parable about the New Economy.
	www.slate.com /id/1004653 (939 words)

	DVDAnswers.com - DVD Reviews - Boiler Room (Region 4)
		Boiler Room doesn't hide the fact that the whole stockbroking-firm thing has been done before.
		The macho feel of the film clearly suits the subject matter, with the odd bar-room brawl and verbal stoush thrown in for good measure.
		The characters gather to perfectly recite the dialogue from Wall Street, the phrases used in Glengarry Glen Ross are mentioned to Seth when he starts out, and Ben Affleck must have grinned from ear to ear when he read a part that was so Alec Baldwin it suited him to a tea.
	www.dvdanswers.com /index.php?r=0&s=2&c=33 (939 words)

	Rotten Tomatoes Forums - Wall Street or Boiler Room?
		"Boiler Room," obviously inspired by both "Wall Street" and "Glengarry Glen Ross," doesn't even come close to the importance of "Wall Street." "Boiler Room" could have been a very interesting film, but it left me wanting more and more.
		"Wall Street" didn't just have a stronger cast, but its script and its direction were twenty times as sharp as the scripting and directing in "Boiler Room." Above all, "Wall Street" had much more depth and much more significance.
		I have yet to see Wall Street from beginning to end, so I don't think I can answer this, although I really liked Boiler Room, it was interesting from beginning to end, with some pretty strong acting.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /vine/showthread.php?t=149805 (726 words)

	Boiler Room - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Boiler Room's dialogue has also been compared (not always favorably) to that of David Mamet, and the film's combination of fresh acting talent, sharp dialogue, and its earnest, if not altogether original, indictment of avarice in the American workplace earned it a largely warm reception from critics.
		Boiler Room is a 2000 U.S. drama / thriller film, written and directed by Ben Younger, and starring Giovanni Ribisi, Vin Diesel and Nia Long.
		The film is often compared to Glengarry Glen Ross and Wall Street - both movies are explicitly quoted by characters in the film, and in one instance a whole scene (from Wall Street) is recited verbatim as the characters watch it on video.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Boiler_Room (254 words)

	The Austin Chronicle: Film Listings
		As an indictment of millennial greed in a society where one in every 36 working Americans (according, again, to the film's press materials) is a millionaire, Boiler Room is tough stuff, recalling middleweight David Mamet at its best moments (there's much speechifying on the nature of Wall Street's “Greed is good” theorem).
		Audience members may not be able to tell an IPO from an RIP going in, but they'll practically be able to mount their own boiler room shenanigans after the lights go up (should they feel the urge).
		As the film's moral center, Ribisi's hangdog mug serves him well -- he's less a bad kid than a kid so desperate to be good that he loses his emotional compass for a while.
	www.austinchronicle.com /gbase/Calendar/Film?Film=oid:140344 (592 words)

	Movie Review - Anaconda
		There is a scene near the end of the film where a large number of small snakes are seen in a boiler room on an abandoned barge.
		Anaconda is a film about a documentary crew's search for a tribe of Indians in the Brazilian jungle, who are believed to be extinct.
		In the beginning of the film a barge, in the middle of the river, is seen with monkeys and parrots in cages.
	www.ahafilm.info /movies/moviereviews.phtml?fid=6829 (461 words)

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	Wall Street (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the 2000 film Boiler Room, some of the young stockbrokers in that film are shown watching Wall Street on video.
		Within two years of the film's release, his star would fall as the Wall Street Journal ran an article exposing many things he had led people to believe about himself (that he was an heir to the Beck brewing family fortune and that he had served in the Vietnam War) as fabrications.
		In the film's final shot, Bud is shown walking up the steps of the state court building in Foley Square to his sentencing.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wall_Street_(film) (1172 words)

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