--- title: 'Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005)' type: 'film' director: 'Alex Gibney' released: '2005-01-01' runtime_minutes: 109 genres: - 'Documentary' countries: - 'United States' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/enron-the-smartest-guys-in-the-room-2005' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1016268/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005) 2005 · 109 min · Documentary · United States ## Synopsis Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room is a 2005 American documentary film based on the best-selling 2003 book of the same name by Fortune reporters Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind, who are credited as writers of the film alongside the director, Alex Gibney. It examines the 2001 collapse of the Enron Corporation, which resulted in criminal trials for several of the company's top executives during the ensuing Enron scandal, and contains a section about the involvement of Enron traders in the 2000-01 California electricity crisis. Archival footage is used alongside new interviews with McLean and Elkind, several former Enron executives and employees, stock analysts, reporters, and former governor of California Gray Davis. ## Credits - **Director:** [Alex Gibney](https://cinepixo.com/people/alex-gibney) - **Producer:** [Alex Gibney](https://cinepixo.com/people/alex-gibney) - **Director of Photography:** [Maryse Alberti](https://cinepixo.com/people/maryse-alberti) ## Cast - [Peter Coyote](https://cinepixo.com/people/peter-coyote) - [Gray Davis](https://cinepixo.com/people/gray-davis) - [Arnold Schwarzenegger](https://cinepixo.com/people/arnold-schwarzenegger) - [Jay Leno](https://cinepixo.com/people/jay-leno) - [George W. Bush](https://cinepixo.com/people/george-w-bush) - [Andrew Fastow](https://cinepixo.com/people/andrew-fastow) - [Bill Clinton](https://cinepixo.com/people/bill-clinton) - [Jeffrey Skilling](https://cinepixo.com/people/jeffrey-skilling) - [Kenneth Lay](https://cinepixo.com/people/kenneth-lay) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Official site: http://www.enronmovie.com/ Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/enron-the-smartest-guys-in-the-room-2005 Film facts: Wikidata (Q1344190); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.