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The fourteenth episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 2000 features our cult classic pick, Ben Younger’s Boiler Room. Written and directed by Ben Younger and starring Giovanni Ribisi, Nicky Katt, Nia Long, Vin Diesel and Ben Affleck, Boiler Room was inspired by Younger’s experience interviewing for a job at a Long Island brokerage firm.
The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Roger Ebert (https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/boiler-room-2000), A.O. Scott in The New York Times (https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/library/film/021800boiler-film-review.html), and Emanuel Levy in Variety (https://variety.com/2000/film/reviews/boiler-room-1117778648/).
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Release Date: 17/07/2024, 10:30:00
