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Boiler Room
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Ben Younger
Produced by	Jennifer Todd Suzanne Todd
Written by	Ben Younger
Starring	Giovanni Ribisi Vin Diesel Nia Long Nicky Katt Ron Rifkin Ben Affleck Tom Everett Scott Scott Caan
Music by	The Angel
Distributed by	New Line Cinema
Running time	118 mins
Country	United States
Budget	$26 million
Gross revenue	$28,780,255

Boiler Room is a 2000 U.S. drama, written and directed by Ben Younger, and starring Giovanni Ribisi, Vin Diesel, Nia Long, Ben Affleck, Nicky Katt, Scott Caan, Tom Everett Scott, Ron Rifkin and Jamie Kennedy.

[edit] Plot

The film takes a look at the world of "Boiler Room" (seedy, dishonorable, and often fraudulent) brokerage firms. The film centers on college dropout Seth Davis (Ribisi), a budding underground casino owner from Queens, New York, who gets a job at J.T. Marlin, a less-than-reputable brokerage firm. However at the time, Seth is totally unaware of the firm's criminal reputation. Davis' opposition to his disapproving federal judge father drives the plot as Davis goes deeper into the operation at J.T. Marlin than he'd like, learning how the firm scams its clients. The company is a chop shop brokerage firm that runs a "pump and dump", using its brokers to create artificial demand in the stock of defunct companies by cold calling investors and selling them shares at prices set by the brokerage firm, which include a large commission to the brokers (up to three dollars a share for a penny stock). When the firm is done pumping the stock, the investors then have no one to sell their shares to in the market, and the price of the stock plummets. As Seth learns more about the firm, he realizes he needs to get out. When the FBI confronts him, he agrees to help them bring down the firm. Feeling the guilt about the many affluent investors (whales) that he unknowingly lied to and scammed, he tries to help one client who could not afford to be scammed in the first place.

The DVD release includes an alternate ending that implies a workplace massacre by one of the cheated clients.

[edit] Cast

• Giovanni Ribisi - Seth Davis
• Vin Diesel - Chris Varick
• Nia Long - Abbie Halpert
• Nicky Katt - Greg Weinstein
• Ron Rifkin - Judge Marty Davis
• Ben Affleck - Jim Young
• Tom Everett Scott - Michael Brantley
• Scott Caan - Richie O'Flaherty
• Jamie Kennedy - Adam

[edit] External links

• Boiler Room at the Internet Movie Database
• Boiler Room at Allmovie
• Boiler Room at Rotten Tomatoes
• Boiler Room at Metacritic
• Boiler Room at Box Office Mojo