Boiler Room (film)

Boiler Room is a 2000 American crime drama film 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.

In 1999, Seth Davis Ribisi, a 19yearold Queens College dropout, runs an unlicensed casino in his apartment. Although he earns a successful living, he is a disappointment to his father, Marty Rifkin, a New York City federal judge. One night, his cousin Adam Kennedy stops by the casino to play blackjack, bringing a wealthy associate named Greg Weinstein Katt along with him. Greg recruits Seth to join J.T. Marlin, a brokerage firm based somewhere off the Long Island Expressway, promising him that he has the opportunity to get rich.Arriving at J.T. Marlin, Seth attends a group interview and learns from Jim Young Affleck, one of the cofounders of the firm, what is expected of his work and also how he can become a millionaire. The firms techniques of selling are through cold calling investors to sell stock, and Seth joins as a stockbroker trainee, having to closeaccounts and pass a SeriesExam in order to begin working independently. The brokers love to quote insider trader Gordon Gekko from Wall Street, seeing him as a role model. He is soon making a good living, as well as winning his fathers approval and embarking on a romance with Abbie Halpert Long, a secretary and Gregs exgirlfriend. ........

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