Word: marlins
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What Seth needs in a hurry--that is, before he turns 30--is a Ferrari, a closetful of Armanis, a couple of mil--and, oh yes, respectability. That's where J.T. Marlin, the brokerage firm, comes in. O.K., it isn't exactly J.P. Morgan. It is, in fact, as the title of writer-director Ben Younger's morally earnest yet very lively first feature has it, a Boiler Room...
Boiler Room traces the steps of 19 year-old Seth Davis (Giovanni Ribisi), a college dropout who enters into a success-driven, overly aggressive stock brokerage firm, which happens to be one of the biggest scams in American history. J.T. Marlin brokerage firm recruits money-hungry, twenty-something, want-to-be brokers, who know nothing and want nothing but money...
Seth enters this world of illegitimate, workaholic millionaires not only to make money, but more importantly to gain the approval of his father. Quiet and submissive, Seth enters into J.T. Marlin and is quickly transformed into a quick-tongued, smooth-lying, money-swindling machine. Wearing nicely pressed suits and holding cash in hand, Seth waits eagerly for his father's elusive approval, and yet this attempt to gain respect from his father soon proves fatal...