Bill Nichols Movies
In this drama that explores greed and corruption in American business, Giovanni Ribisi plays Seth Davis, an intelligent and ambitious college dropout who runs a casino in his apartment. Eager to show his father that he can succeed, Seth lands a job with a small stock brokerage firm. He is given a space in the company's "boiler room," where he makes cold calls to prospective clients. As it turns out, Seth has a genuine talent for cold calling, which gains him the approval of his superiors, the admiration of his father, and the attentions of one of his co-workers, Abby Hilliard (Nia Long). However, the higher up the ladder Seth rises, the deeper he sinks into a quagmire of dirty dealings, until he's breaking the law in order to keep his bosses happy and his paychecks coming. The Boiler Room also features Tom Everett Scott, Scott Caan, Jamie Kennedy, Nicky Katt, and Ben Affleck in a cameo as the headhunter who brings Seth into the firm. Ribisi and Scott also appeared together in That Thing You Do; Ribisi was the drummer replaced by Scott, who then led The One-Ders to fictional pop stardom. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Giovanni Ribisi, Vin Diesel, (more)
The traumatic history of the Aboriginal people of Borroloola is told by the very people who were present to witness the massacres, institutionalization, and geographical displacement that they suffered in this unflinching ethnographic documentary from filmmakers Carolyn Strachan and Alessandro Cavadini. Residing in the remote Northern Territory of Australia, these peaceful Aboriginals have been perpetually torn between the centuries-old code of their own people and the barbarous conditions imposed upon them by European settlers. Divided into four parts including "Police Times," "Welfare Times," "Struggle for Our Land," and "Living with Two Laws," this film follows the people of Borroloola from their confrontations with white settlers and police in the 1930s to their pilgrimage back to their traditional land at the turn of the 21st Century. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Carolyn Strachan, Alessandro Cavadini, (more)
