- #FILM CROOKED E THE UNSHREDDED TRUTH ABOUT ENRON MOVIE#
- #FILM CROOKED E THE UNSHREDDED TRUTH ABOUT ENRON TV#
As new falsifications of financial statements come to light. The Crooked E: The Unshredded Truth About Enron (TV) is a film directed by Penelope Spheeris with Christian Kane, Shannon Elizabeth, Cameron Bancroft.
Trading in abstract commodities while holding virtually no real assets, the company once poised "to take over the universe" is nothing more than a house of cards waiting to fall.
#FILM CROOKED E THE UNSHREDDED TRUTH ABOUT ENRON MOVIE#
Those who make time for the movie (8-10 p.m. CBS The Crooked E: The Unshredded Truth About Enron is not it.
#FILM CROOKED E THE UNSHREDDED TRUTH ABOUT ENRON TV#
It's everything he's always wanted-until he stumbles upon Enron's secret. An exceptional scandal cries out for exceptional storytelling. Enron's downfall is depicted through the eyes of Cruver, an eager young MBA grad, in the CBS TV movie 'The Crooked E: The Unshredded Truth About Enron' airing 9 p.m. But Cruver doesn't want out-even at the risk of losing Courtney. As Cruver's salary skyrockets, and as his position as senior manager for bankruptcy risk management imbues him with more power, Cruver finds himself seduced into a corporate greed machine with no way out. Brash, energetic, and trusting, Brian believes everything that Enron Chairman of the Board Kenneth Lay (Mike Farrell) says about the company's dedication to integrity. He has the perfect girl in Courtney (Shannon Elizabeth), his fiancee, and he has the perfect job at Enron, a bankruptcy trading group soaring to number one in the Fortune 500. Its interesting in that it gives some insight to what it was like to work there, the cult of personality that existed and how the employees (for the most part) blindly followed Management into the abyss.
Brian Cruver (Christian Kane) is a bright 26-year-old Texas boy. The Crooked E is a fairly entertaining story (key word being story) of Brian Cruver and his experiences in the year he worked at Enron. This is the eyewitness account of Enron's scandalous undoing, and one insider who survived his own personal fall from grace. In total, twenty-five billion dollars was lost. Ten thousand people lost their jobs, and even more saw their life savings wiped out. As he assimilates to the companys get-rich-quick mantra, spending sprees and wild corporate. the largest bankruptcy United States history was filed. Brian Cruver, an ambitious 26-year-old lands a job at Enron.