Boiler Room (The) IMDB
- Cast: Giovanni Ribisi, Vin Diesel, Nia Long
Director:
Ben Younger
Categories: Drama, Crime
Rated: R
Running Time: 120 minutes
Synopsis
In this drama that explores greed and corruption in American
business, Giovanni Ribisi plays Seth Davis, an intelligent and ambitious
college dropout who runs a casino in his apartment. Eager to show his father
that he can succeed, Seth lands a job with a small stock brokerage firm. He is
given a space in the company's "boiler room," where he makes cold calls to
prospective clients. As it turns out, Seth has a genuine talent for cold
calling, which gains him the approval of his superiors, the admiration of his
father, and the attentions of one of his co-workers, Abby Hilliard (Nia Long).
However, the higher up the ladder Seth rises, the deeper he sinks into a
quagmire of dirty dealings, until he's breaking the law in order to keep his
bosses happy and his paychecks coming. The Boiler Room also features Tom
Everett Scott, Scott Caan, Jamie Kennedy, Nicky Katt, and Ben Affleck in a
cameo as the headhunter who brings Seth into the firm. Ribisi and Scott also
appeared together in That Thing You Do; Ribisi was the drummer replaced by
Scott, who then led The One-Ders to fictional pop stardom. ~ Mark Deming, All
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