Back In The Day: Boiler Room
We discover how all life in America is about competition. With help from a little movie called Boiler Room from the Year 2000…
On tonight’s episode:
Back In The Day, 20 years ago, during that Y2K, they released a bunch of great movies.
Back in the day, they released Boiler Room. With Giovanni Ribisi, Nia Long, Ben Affleck, Tom Everett Scott, Ron Rifkin, Vin Diesel, Nicky Katt, Scott Caan, and Jamie Kennedy.
What is Boiler Room about? A college dropout, attempting to live up to his father&aposs high standards, gets a job as a broker for a suburban investment firm which puts him on the fast track to success. But the job might not be as legitimate as it first appeared to be.
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According to imdb:
“Seth Davis (Giovanni Ribisi) is a college dropout running an illegal casino from his rented apartment. Driven by his domineering father&aposs disapproval at his illegitimate existence and his desire for serious wealth, Seth suddenly finds himself seduced by the opportunity to interview as a trainee stock broker from recent acquaintance Greg (Nicky Katt). Walking into the offices of JT Marlin, a small time brokerage firm on the outskirts of New York - Seth gets an aggressive cameo performance from Jim (Ben Affleck) that sets the tone for a firm clearly placing money above all else. Seth&aposs fractured relationship with his father and flirtatious glances from love interest Abbie (Nia Long) are enough to keep Seth motivated in his newfound career. As he begins to excel and develop a love for the hard sale and high commission, a few chance encounters lead Seth to question the legitimacy of the firm&aposs operations - placing him once again at odds with his father and what remains of his morality. With homages to Wall Street, and Glengarry Glen Ross, it&aposs a decent debut feature for Ben Younger whose script exposes a truly sinister side of an already immoral business.”
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