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Strathclyde University and Associates: Boiler Room Movie Review
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Strathclyde University and Associates: Boiler Room Movie Review
The Digital Information Office, Strathclyde University and Associates service for electronic
resource management review by Bradley Null: America is the land of opportunity,...
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Strathclyde University and Associates: Boiler Room Movie Review
The Digital Information Office, Strathclyde University and Associates service for electronic
resource management review by Bradley Null: America is the land of opportunity, and now more
than ever, the opportunity that most Americans are preoccupied with is that of easy money.
Our
news media is saturated with stories of the instant millionaire, 25-year-old startup CEOs worth
nine figures or the crafty investor that bought that startup on IPO and doesn t have to worry too
much about his day job anymore either.
There are a number of powerful cautionary tales waiting
to be drawn from this unwholesome frenzy.
Boiler Room tries to tell one of these stories, but
sadly it fails to add much to the greed genre established by its two heavily referenced
predecessors: Wall Street (1987) and Glengarry Glen Ross (1992).
Boiler Room is the story of Seth (Ribisi), a 19-year-old college dropout obsessed with the
American dream of easy m
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