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IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
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Why this pick
Like Barbarians at the Gate, it turns a high-stakes corporate takeover into sharp, character-led entertainment, pitting flashy dealmaking instincts against a company’s identity and human loyalties.
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Why this pick
Its stylized boardroom world, ambitious executive maneuvering, and screwball edge echo the comic spectacle of corporate power and ego in Barbarians at the Gate.
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Why this pick
A more restrained, tense corporate pressure-cooker: smart professionals confront an institutional crisis through crisp dialogue, competing self-interest, and escalating executive decisions.
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Why this pick
For the real-business appetite, this brisk documentary makes corporate excess, executive bravado, and financial gamesmanship compelling without needing fictional embellishment.
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Why this pick
It shares the pleasure of watching outsized financial personalities and opaque deal structures rendered with velocity, satire, and an accessible, irreverent point of view.
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01 / THE STORY
Self-made multimillionaire and RJR Nabisco CEO F. Ross Johnson decides to take the tobacco and food conglomerate company private in 1988 after receiving advance news of the likely market failure of the company's smokeless cigarette called Premier (cigarette), the development of which had been intended to finally boost the company's stock price.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Peter Cohen
Linda Robinson
F. Ross Johnson
Henry Kravis
Laurie Johnson
Ted Forstmann
Jim Robinson
