Boiler Room Boys Don't Cry
Cooper, Rand Richards
sight to install a certain tiredness at...
...the screen...
...and Seth er is someone who's there when the lights knows it...
...sight to install a certain tiredness at the heart of his film...
...His is the art of keeping the con- meditation on intelligence and the moral versation going...
...stakes of everyday life...
...Peirce's vision of this rural dystopia off as so much truth...
...and when Younger understands that what's folk wisdom...
...he asks in tive ending serves up a last-ditch chance girlfriend of one of the thugs, exhilaraa voice-over...
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...Then soundtrack...
...You have a feeling about what sees a chance and takes it: he'll get a real you've seen-attraction or resistance, sus- job, rescue his relationship with dad, picion or joy-and now this feeling is and become a player all at once...
...Marlin, raucous disdain for clients lives within the bull-market mythos of I haunted the revival houses, gorging is the rule-everyone listens in when a greed is good...
...talking...
...J.T...
...MINISTRY July 17-July 27 Catechetical Leadership Diana Raiche, Ph.D...
...but that by-night New York brokerage firm, con- same intelligence also makes him good versation is less an art than an assault...
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...The "se- sism: it isn't even real power these where the seats sloped upward toward nior" brokers, themselves all under thir- stock jocks are after, just the trappings...
...Maureen Shaughnessy, S.C., MA...
...Conflict was the ideal reviewer, her literariness looms in the form of his father, a New played off against a healthy appetite for York City judge, played with icy scorn pop culture, her manner imperious but by Ron Rifkin...
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...Do you know how good it feels to close has to give...
...June 19 - June 22 Stewardship and Financial Management I Donald Swartz, M.B.A...
...to prevail in the adrenaline society...
...Younger's babyafter working all morning to hard-sell them stock on the spot...
...Among the trainees, he's the star...
...le-down greed, with no grandeur to it people's reactions-somebody trashing This is territory already well worked at all...
...William Dych, S.J., Th.D...
...of her low-life buddies when they found for love...
...Eavesdrop- recruiter, played by Ben Affleck...
...on European films and Hollywood clas- broker lands a big fish-and the locker- Where Gekko's outburst came off as a sics: Closely Watched Trains at the lovely room atmosphere ripples with sexu- blast of evil, with all the classical Carnegie Hall Cinema, Night of the al/anatomical bluster and the gloating echoes of lust for power, Boiler Room Hunter at Theater 80 Saint Mark's, and misogyny of refusing to sell stocks to portrays greed sunk to a petty narcisCitizen Kane at my favorite, the Thalia, women, or "pitch the bitch...
...friend to watch, it's a profoundly distempts to evade them...
...6363 St...
...Its tion...
...Her reviews read like someone chastises Seth, "make an honest living...
...Rarely have so many lies come Giovanni Ribisi s fascinating face, pale out...
...July 10 -July 13 Youth Ministry: Models and Approaches Reynolds R. Ekstrom, M.P.S...
...I was learning the ins and outs of cold-calling, What's new about this, in other I trying to write fiction, and phoning potential investors and trying words, is how old it is...
...going to be teased out into an idea...
...A review- honest business than his casino...
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...Marlin turns out to be a less you ask, what did you think...
...through a coy reversal of the common shielded, building curiosity...
...As he ze- fused young woman who cut her hair, suit-and then defense of who she beroes in on the fraud at the core of the switched first and last names, and passed lieves herself to be...
...A luxurious thing, to dream ty, dangle promises of pricey cars and They're gambling junkies turned scam away an afternoon in the dark...
...and watching him pitch a for Seth to "do one thing right," and in tion blinds her to all danger, and events nervous client (he plays it beautifully), the process delivers a surprisingly hope- grind toward tragedy...
...the firm's compliance officer spend late a high-orbit career, check Perhaps inevitably, the film idealizes nights shredding documents...
...When fate brings to Seth's blackjack Movies are intimate, and like all lovers, game a silky-smooth, Ferrari-driving the lover of movies luxuriates in the talk broker from J.T...
...As her story begins firm (it involves selling stocks in phony herself off as a man in a hardscrabble Ne- to fall apart, she alters it piece by piece, front companies), he grows increasing- braska town, only to be brutalized by two frantically trying to keep alive a hope ly troubled...
...Her Brandon is shy but how the firm actually makes its money, count of Teena Brandon, a sexually con- ardent, and ultimately tenacious in purand begins to snoop around...
...at it...
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...briefly in Manhattan...
...Younger's flashy, redemp- but as she riskily falls in love with the exsomeone, to sell someone...
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...So, Alas, J.T...
...taunts the head whose hip-hop music juices the film's there was no one to talk to...
...it's axiomatic, a given...
...But it's Younger's shrewd in- Boiler Room sets out to resurrect a keep from lunging into their conversa- sense of evil from this dreary setup...
...NEW ORLEANS July 10-July 27 Dynamics of Small Group Life Billie Salisbury Baladouni, D.Min...
...For me as for so many others, Kael in his apartment in Queens...
...Just another quick high-selling a film I'd liked, or exuding enthusiasm by Wall Street and Glengarry Glen Ross, stocks, "the white boy way of slinging over something so palpably sentimental, and at first Boiler Room seems like noth- crack rock...
...He quotes from Glengarry Glen Ross to his recruits...
...Last to Go and Big as Life...
...Why does T actress from obscurity into complicity...
...but Swank shines nonetheless, his best to hide behind a shield of igno- in Boys Don't Cry...
...THREE-WEEK COURSES June 19-July 6 Introduction to Practical Theology Michael Cowan, Ph.D...
...Charles Ave...
...At faced trainees have lived their whole I'd reward myself by going to a movie...
...and after BAD BOYS work, when the gang kicks back with 'Boiler Room' & 'Boys Don't Cry' beer and a video, it's Oliver Stone's Wall Street they watch-performing Gordon Gekko's "greed is good" soliloquy vern my mid-twenties I lived The movie follows a team of trainees batim in a rowdy group karaoke...
...If Affleck's tirades Rand Richards Cooper sound like lines you've heard before, it's because they are...
...I] and mournfully brooding-he looks like is so wholly bleak, with a male element a silent-film actor-makes Seth a study so unremittingly vicious, that it's hard to Rand Richards Cooper is the author of The in tormented introspection...
...Instead, New Yorker in hand, I'd hero is Seth Davis (Giovanni Ribisi), a head for the nearest park bench to check savvy college drop-out who at the film's my take on the film against Pauline outset is running an illegal mini-casino Kael's...
...LOYOLA June 19 -July 6 Spirituality, Morality, and Ethics Sr...
...It was as if the city existed to tempt for anyone not pumped enough ity is less with the buttoned-down make moviegoing possible...
...Shrewdly Peirce you can't help sharing his excited plea- ful tilt on morality in our age of greed keeps scenes of Brandon's undressing sure in his own prowess...
...Seth quickly In Boiler Room, director Ben Younger's grasps the sleaziness in pushing dubidebut film about shady dealings in a fly- ous stocks to gullible rubes...
...Marlin (Nicky Kat), Seth afterward...
...First-time director conveying gentleness and a doomed, rance, but he can't stand not knowing Kimberly Peirce tells the true-story ac- breathless joy...
...you could argue with her...
...July 14 - 15 Liturgical Seasons and Special Celebrations Jean Marie Hiesberger, M.A...
...You Gekko than with the gangsta rappers The only drawback was that afterward want vacation time...
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...How do the senior brokers mance can rocket a young urge to pin her down feels queasily like earn such big commissions...
...In Boiler Room, curiosity the nasties finally turn on Brandon, tearmost interesting about moral obliga- may be the only way to save the cat-if ing her clothes off while forcing the girltions-and most dramatic-is our at- the cat is your soul, that is...
...Marie Vianney Bilgrien, S.S.N.D., S.T.D...
...Bernard Lee, S.M., Th.D...
...Marlin...
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Vol. 127 • April 2000 • No. 8
