Boiler Room Movie

Boiler Room is a 2000 movie written and directed by Ben Younger,starring Giovanni Ribisi, Ben Affleck and Vin Diesel. The movie is Younger's first big screen effort. He developed the screenplay for the film from a past personal experience where he had been approached to work as a stock broker with promises of huge financial rewards.http://www.tribute.ca/people/ben-younger/4107/Sensing that the company was not on the level, he went to work researching subversive Wall Street brokerage firms for the next year before writing the film.

Boiler Room opened to a weekend gross of $5,742,129 and would go on to gross $28,780,255 worldwide.http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=boilerroom.htmIts production budget was $26 million. http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=boilerroom.htmAlthough the movie was only a moderate commercial success, it has developed a cult following for its inside look at the inner workings of a fraudulent brokerage company. The film would also win the Jury Special Prize at the Deauville Film Festival and receive nominations for Best First Feature and Best First Screenplay at the Independent Spirit Awards.http://www.tribute.ca/people/ben-younger/4107/

Boiler Room stars Giovanni Ribisi as Seth Green - an ambitious college dropout running his own illegal casino operation out of his apartment. Seth is recruited to join J.T. Marlin, an investment firm promising huge payouts to its floor of stock brokers. Eager to please his father and lured by the promise of wealth, Seth joins J.T. Marlin where he excels at selling stock through cold calls. As he rises up the ranks of the company, Seth begins to earn the respect of his father and the approval of his superiors. However, it is not long before Seth discovers the shady dealings of the firm and he must make a difficult decision which could threaten to destroy his life.http://www.allmovie.com/work/boiler-room-181533