Boiler Room Summary
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Ben Younger
Genres: Drama, Crime
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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, Rovi
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