Boiler Room [Blu-ray]

Director: Ben Younger Ben Younger

Overview

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.

Product Details

Release Date:	03/04/2014
UPC:	0883929387595
Original Release:	2000
Rating:	R
Source:	New Line Home Video
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Stereo]
Language:	English
Time:	1:59:00
Sales rank:	18,415

Special Features

Deleted scenes/alternate ending; Commentary by writer/director Ben Younger, producer Jennifer Todd and actor Giovanni Ribisi and The Angel; Original theatrical trailer

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Giovanni Ribisi	Seth
Nia Long	Abby
Ben Affleck	Jim Young
Tom Everett Scott	Michael
Ron Rifkin	Marty Davis
Vin Diesel	Chris
Nicky Katt	Greg
Scott Caan	Richie
Jamie Kennedy	Adam
Taylor Nichols	Harry Reynard
William Sage	Agent Drew,Agent Drew
John Griesemer	Concierge
David Younger	Marc
Russel Harper	Kid
Mark Webber	Kid
Donna Mitchell	Seth's Mother
Jon Abrahams	Jeff
Peter Maloney	Dr. Jacobs
Christopher Fitzgerald	Kid
Will McCormack	Mike the Casino Patron
Jared Ryan	Casino Steve
Anson Mount	Broker
Kirk Acevedo	Broker
Seth Ullian	Broker
Eddie Malavarca	Broker
Carlo Vogel	Rude Kid
Matthew Saldivar	Series Seven Kid
Serge Skliarenko	Croatian Broker
Lisa Gerstein	Sheryl
Ross Ryman	Isaac
Marjorie Johnson	Abby's Mother
Peter Rini	JP Broker
Raymond Pirkle	JP Broker
Joe Pretlow	JP Broker
Lori Yoffe	Secretary
Alex Webb	FBI Director
Gillian Sacco	Waitress at Mickey's
Don Hewitt Jr.	Local
Mark Moshe Bellows	John Fineman
Daniel Serafini-Sauli	Broker Steve
Lucinda Faraldo	Trendy Hostess
Neal Lerner	Gay Man
Taylor Patterson	Sara Reynard
Michael McCarthy	Max Reynard
Marsha Dietlein	Susan Reynard
Joseph Tudisco	Janitor
Judy Del Guidice	Office Woman
Siobhan Fallon	Harry's Supervisor
Herbert Russell	Kid
André Vippolis	Neil Davis
Bill Nichols	Agent Drew
Russell Harper	Kid
Don Hewitt	Local
Joe Prelow	JP Broker
Matthew Saldivan	Series Seven Kid
The Angel	Composer
Angel	Composer

Technical Credits

Ben Younger

Catherine Gore

Ben Younger	Director,Screenwriter
Richard Brener	Executive Producer
John Papsidera	Casting
Claire Rudnick Polstein	Executive Producer
Mike Russo	Stunts
Suzanne Todd	Producer,Producer
Joe Barnett	Sound Effects
Dorian Cheah	Sound Effects
Gino Conway	Sound Effects
Benjamin Cook	Sound Effects
Lisle Engle	Sound Effects
Catherine Gore	Screenwriter
Peter Schneider	Sound Mixer

Editorial Reviews

Ben Younger's Boiler Room is a morality tale about sleazy stockbrokers that freely acknowledges its antecedents: The film's young, would-be millionaires spend their evenings in unfurnished mansions watching Wall Street on a big-screen TV and recite lines from Glengarry Glen Ross by heart. The mesmerizing Giovanni Ribisi stars as a college dropout with get-rich-quick dreams who joins a low-end brokerage house only to discover he's being taught to bilk families out of their life savings. The fun of Boiler Room is in the vibrant portrait it paints of a particularly high-pressure brand of salesmanship, with characters mouthing such memorable catch phrases as "don't pitch the bitch" (i.e., don't sell to women). Vin Diesel and Nicky Katt are vivid as Ribisi's fellow brokers, and Ben Affleck gets to deliver some zingy, testosterone-laced monologues urging new recruits to stop at nothing in their quest for the all-important "close." Ribisi's relationship with his disapproving father and his affair with the firm's secretary add some emotional dimension, but Boiler Room is really a boys' flick -- it's at its energetic best when exploring the rituals of an all-male universe where misogyny and bad manners rule.

Barnes & Noble - Gregory Baird

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). 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. Nevertheless, Younger creates some memorable visuals, and extracts excellent performances from a talented cast, notably character actor Giovanni Ribisi, who successfully carries a film as a leading man for the first time. Unfolding like an anti-Horatio Alger tale, or the sobering flip side of '80s-era "boy makes rich" films like The Secret of My Success (1987) and Cocktail (1988), Boiler Room ends up a well-crafted but overly familiar tale of youthful exuberance and ambition corrupted by big business.

All Movie Guide - Karl Williams