Risk - The Fastest Path to Wealth
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Risk - The Fastest Path to Wealth |
| Original title | Boiler Room |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2000 |
| length | 120 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Ben Younger |
| script | Ben Younger |
| production |
Jennifer Todd , Suzanne Todd |
| music | The Angel |
| camera | Enrique Chediak |
| cut | Chris Peppe |
| occupation | |
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Risk - The Fastest Path to Wealth (Original Title: Boiler Room ) is an American thriller from 2000 . It was directed by Ben Younger , who also wrote the script.
action
New York City : Seth Davis drops out of college at Queens College to run an illegal casino in his apartment. Seth has a tense relationship with his father, the judge Marty Davis, especially when he learns about his son's casino. To impress his father, he follows a friend's advice and takes on a position as a stockbroker in the financial company JT Marlin, which makes above-average profits. The atmosphere of the company is characterized by unrestrained greed but also by camaraderie between the brokers. Davis falls in love with the attractive secretary, whom his boss also has an eye on.
Davis initially works there as an assistant to a broker, but soon rises in the company hierarchy and becomes a broker himself. First he wonders why young brokers can make fairytale profits and how it is possible that he earns more than the established brokerage firms. He doesn't get any answers to these questions from the bosses. In the course of his career, however, he learns that the company is using illegal methods. As part of cold calling , stocks for fictitious companies are sold to investors who are then cheated of their money. The company also works according to the pump-and-dump scheme : company shares in companies in which JT Martin himself holds a large proportion of the shares are bought and the share price artificially increased. JT Martin then sells the shares at a high price and the share price plummets. As a result, investors lose the majority of their investments.
In order to close a particularly large - and illegal - deal, he asks his father for help. He reluctantly agrees and is arrested a little later by the FBI , which has been monitoring the activities of JT Marlin for some time. To protect his father from charge, Davis works with the FBI and hands them incriminating material about the company's work.
The FBI arrests all JT Marlin employees except Seth.
synchronization
The German synchronization was at RC Production in Berlin , after a dialogue book by Oliver Rohrbeck and the dialogue director of Dietmar miracle .
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Seth Davis | Giovanni Ribisi | Gerrit Schmidt-Foss |
| Chris Varick | Vin Diesel | Charles Rettinghaus |
| Abbie Halpert | Nia Long | Melanie Pukass |
| Greg Weinstein | Nicky Katt | Frank Schaff |
| Richie O'Flaherty | Scott Caan | Dennis Schmidt-Foss |
| Judge Marty Davis | Ron Rifkin | Otto Mellies |
| Adam | Jamie Kennedy | Dietmar miracle |
| Harry Reynard | Taylor Nichols | Uwe Büschken |
| FBI agent David Drew | Bill Sage | Bernd Vollbrecht |
| Michael Brantley | Tom Everett Scott | David Nathan |
| Jim Young | Ben Affleck | Johannes Berenz |
backgrounds
- The film was shot in New York City and Long Island . Its production amounted to an estimated 9 million US dollars . The world premiere took place on January 30, 2000 at the Sundance Film Festival . The film was released on February 18, 2000 in the United States, in which it grossed approximately 16.9 million US dollars. Worldwide it grossed $ 28.7 million at the box office.
- The original name of the film is Boiler Room , a term that stands for a dubious company in which callers sell inferior stocks to gullible customers under poor working conditions, using manipulative sales techniques.
- Like The Wolf of Wall Street (2013), the film is inspired by the career of Jordan Belfort .
- In the film, the protagonists refer to the films Wall Street and Glengarry Glen Ross .
reception
Reviews
Roger Ebert wrote in the Chicago Sun-Times of February 18, 2000 that the film looked like real life, which was observed at close range ("The movie has the high-octane feel of real life, closely observed"). One of his strongest points is the tension-laden relationship between Seth Davis and his father. The representations are good. Ebert criticized the ending, which seemed "artificial"; he certified the film, however, "suspense" and the ability to captivate the audience.
Emanuel Levy wrote in the magazine Variety that the "naive philosophy" presented was disappointing.
The Lexicon of International Films wrote, Risk - The Fastest Path to Wealth is a "handsome debut film". He tries "to deal with the phenomenon of the booming stock business and especially its darker side" and shows "immature people who earn money as unscrupulous as they are for their own sake".
Awards
Giovanni Ribisi and Ben Affleck were nominated for the Teen Choice Award in 2000. The film was nominated for the British Independent Film Award in 2000 for Best Foreign English Language Film . Ben Younger received a special award from the Deauville Film Festival in 2000 and was nominated for another award at that festival.
Ben Younger and the film producers were nominated for the 2001 Independent Spirit Award for Best Debut Film; Ben Younger received another nomination for this award as a screenwriter. Nia Long was nominated for the Black Reel Award in 2001.
Web links
- Risk - The fastest way to wealth in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Risk - The fastest way to wealth at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- Risk - The fastest way to wealth at Metacritic (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Risk - The Fastest Path to Wealth. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous file , accessed on May 22, 2020 .
- ^ Filming locations for Boiler Room , accessed June 10, 2008
- ↑ Box office / business for Boiler Room , accessed June 10, 2008
- ↑ Release dates for Boiler Room , accessed June 10, 2008
- ^ Entry on boxofficemojo.com , accessed June 11, 2008
- ↑ (engl.) Esquire ( page no longer available , searching web archives ) Info: The link is automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Film review by Roger Ebert , accessed June 10, 2008
- ↑ Quote from uk.rottentomatoes.com , accessed June 10, 2008
- ↑ Risk - The Fastest Path to Wealth in the Lexicon of International Films , accessed June 10, 2008
