Boiler Room 2000, Rated R New Line Home Video

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There was a time back when I was in high school when you could take solace in the fact that in another five or six years you would be making a good living while those beer-swilling, football playing, gym clothes stealing, prom queen dating jocks would be stuck in jobs where questions like, "would you like fries with that?" and "how much sewage is down there?" were going to be integral to their day. As Boiler Room asserts, no longer is this the case. When Seth (Giovanni Ribisi) drops out of college and is hired on at the investment firm JT Marlin, he is promised that he will be a millionaire in less than three years by a former high school lackey made good, Jim Young (Ben Affleck). Sensing that the situation is too good to be true, Seth begins to snoop around and learns that JT Marlin is turning immense profits because their brokers are selling bogus stocks. Set inside the hectic and chaotic calling floor, where associates cold-call perspective buyers--what the insiders refer to as a 'boiler room'--we are taken inside the new world of high finance, complete with clever accounting and creative marketing departments. Taught, clever and obviously well researched, Boiler Room was a sickening look inside the lives of chop-shop brokerages.