Boiler Room is the story of a young man from a successful family who tries to make his own way. He drops out of college and indeed achieves some success though all his entrepreneur efforts happen to be illegal. When a chance meeting between himself and a stock broker provides an opportunity he takes it. He finds that he is quite good at this too but questionable practices of the firm he works for, choices he has to make to be successful, and failure to obtain his father’s approval put him at a crossroads that make him choose what kind of person he truly wants to be.
One of the things I like most about the movie is the soundtrack. It is made up entirely of East Coast Hip Hop music though there is no African American male starring in the entire movie. In fact the protagonist character in the movie played by Giovanni Ribisi comments that he is embarking on the White person’s version of selling crack rock, becoming a stock broker. The movie has a cast of well known young actors including Ben Affleck, Tom Everett Scott, Jamie Kennedy, and Vin Diesel as well as Ron Rifkin as the Father and Nia Long as the love interest and only African-American member of the cast.
This movie was enjoyable all the way through and I especially loved the soundtrack. I give it a 4 out of 5 marks.