Boiler Room

A college dropout gets a job as a broker for a suburban investment firm, which puts him on the fast track to success, but the job might not be as legitimate as it sounds.



Seth Davis is a college dropout running an illegal casino from his rented apartment. Driven by his domineering fathers disapproval at his illegitimate existence and his desire for serious wealth, Seth suddenly finds himself seduced by the opportunity to interview as a trainee stock broker from recent acquaintance Greg (Nicky Katt). Walking into the offices of JT Marlin, a small time brokerage firm on the outskirts of New York - Seth gets an aggressive cameo performance from Jay (Ben Affleck) that sets the tone for a firm clearly placing money above all else. Seth's fractured relationship with his father and flirtatious glances from love interest Abbie (Nia Long) are enough to keep Seth motivated in his new found career. As he begins to excel and develop a love for the hard sale and high commission, a few chance encounters leads Seth to question the legitimacy of the firms operations - placing him once again at odds with his father and what remains of his morality. With homages to Wall Street, and Glengarry Glen Ross, it's a decent debut feature for Ben Younger who's script exposes a truly sinister side of an already immoral business.
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A morally decent college dropout finds himself at conflict with his harsh federal judge father. He gets a job as a stock broker and gets on the fast track to success. Only things take a turn for the worse when he learns that his job isn't what's it cracked up to be.
Written by Mystic80




Seth Davis, a Queens College dropout has high aspirations. The casino Seth operates from his apartment is a good source of revenue; but does not meet the high expectations of his father. His father is a successful judge who is stern, which makes his approval important to Seth. One night, when Seth looks out his front door at the yellow Ferrari, he is introduced to the wealth potential of stock brokerage. Seth pursues a career with J.T. Marlin, a wire house located on Long Island. As a junior associate he learns the craft of sales over the phone. He is aiming for a position as a senior broker after obtaining his Series 7 license. He's terrific salesperson. Once he completes his training, the pay is phenomenal. He soon notices the commissions earned at J.T. Marlin are much larger than average. At this point he becomes apprehensive of J.T. Marlin's business practices. While entering this profession to impress his father; Seth soon figures out he may have chosen the wrong profession.
Written by Anonymous




A young man has dropped out of Queens College but desperately wants to please his father, a federal judge who's harsh with his son. At his father's insistence, Seth Davis closes a casino he operates in his own house, mostly for college students. Thinking he'll please dad, he takes a job in a small brokerage house, an hour from Manhattan, where trainees make cold calls to lists of well-paid men, and then apply high-pressure tactics to sell initial public offerings exclusive to the firm. He's terrific at sales. Once training is over, the pay is phenomenal, and Seth wonders why. Curiosity leads him to ethical dilemmas, encounters with the Feds, and new territory with his father.
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SYNOPSIS

This first appeared on www.realmoviereview.com First time writer/director director Ben Youngers investment drama tries so hard to be the Wall Street for the new Millennium, that it makes the story, though interesting, seem unoriginal. The acting from the young, but familiar cast is good and the energy level, which can be a problem with movies based in the world of suits, is good. The story takes awhile to get going, but, overall, this is a fairly good film.

Giovanni Ribisi, best known as the medic in Saving Private Ryan, is Seth Davis, an enterprising college dropout, making nice coin by running a small illegal casino. The disapproval of his domineering father, leads Seth to a career change into the investment business with a bunch of cocky, young Turks, who seem to be making a lot more money than they should be on mysterious investments pushed hard-sale style through aggressive cold calling. Pushing the new recruits is veteran, Jim Young, whose role here is reminiscent of that of Alex Baldwin in Glengarry Glen Ross. At the same time, he finds a relationship forming with firm secretary, Abbie (Nia Long), who as luck would have it, was also formerly pursued by his new boss, which adds to the tensions of the high pressure job and mysterious profits.

This is a homage to the 1980s Wall Street, with a generous dash of Glengarry Glen Ross thrown in. If you enjoyed both of those films, then the odds are good that you will like this effort, but be warned there is no character here that can compare to Michael Douglas's Gordon Gekko