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Boiler Room is a 2000 American crime drama film written and directed by Ben Younger, and starring Giovanni Ribisi, Vin Diesel, Nia Long, Ben Affleck, Nicky Katt, Scott Caan, Tom Everett Scott, Ron Rifkin, and Jamie Kennedy.
Screenwriter Ben Younger interviewed for a job at brokerage firm Sterling Foster. Afterwards, Younger said "I walked in and immediately realized, This is my movie. I mean, you see these kids and know something is going on."
The film is based on interviews the writer conducted with numerous brokers over a two-year period, and is inspired by the firm Stratton Oakmont and the life of Jordan Belfort, whose autobiography was later adapted into Martin Scorsese's 2013 film The Wolf of Wall Street, starring Leonardo DiCaprio as Belfort.
In 1999, Seth Davis (Ribisi), a 19-year-old Queens College dropout, runs an unlicensed casino in his apartment. Although he earns a successful living, he is a disappointment to his father, Marty (Rifkin), a New York City federal judge. One night, his cousin Adam (Kennedy) stops by the casino to play blackjack, bringing a wealthy associate named Greg Weinstein (Katt) along with him. Greg recruits Seth to join J.T. Marlin, a brokerage firm based somewhere off the Long Island Expressway, promising him that he has the opportunity to get rich.
Watch me give out
Never giving in
The only way is to get down in it
To the top with me now there's no limits
Give me reason
Reason to believe
That you're with us when we're bringing it to ya
Like we have before
We're gonna do it again
We're gonna do it again now
Turn it out
Do it again
We're gonna do it again now
Set it off
Do It Again
We're gonna do it again now
This goes out to the ones who doubt
No longer the underdog. we're gonna win it
Don't you doubt us 'cause we were always in it
Now tell me, tell me what ya, what ya gonna do
When I get some cash, she'll get with me too
Everybody knows that we get the party started
And I must admit, we make an art of it
We're coming down hard on all the half-hearted
And watch me now 'cause I'm just getting started
Watch me blow it on up
Watch me blow it on op
Watch me now. 'cause you're living a lie
and now you came to confide
We're gonna do it again
We're gonna do it again now
Turn it out
Do it again
We're gonna do It again now
Set it off
Do It Again
We're gonna do it again now