A&E Billionaire Boys Club

This film held up well over the years, particularly in sync when this crime occurred. Marvin J. Chomsky never disappoints, an excellent director of his day and I wish he would teach this new generation how to direct a strong true story in this current era. The true stories are poorly miscast; the directors today wash out or over develop the films today and they appear so cheap looking and bad and refuses to apply a colour technique which is not blinding or too bright. Chomsky knows lighting, set decoration, captures the moment in time when things were extravagant and the cast is a professional cast and mature to handle the story. Yes, they were young, but they were better than what is seen today in actresses or actors. Men look like men, and the women were not wearing duplicate hairstyle of blonde and robotic or pretentious. It was just a entirely different era which no one will understand, except, the director, and the cast. It was a sharp production and my Gen X group will always find this as one of the top best of that year 1987!! The movies of the 80s-90s used warm lighting, set decoration, strength of performances made a BIG difference, the writing was top notch, excellent casting and the taking the subject matter seriously with out adding extra characters (as LMN will do today, they add characters who weren't even in the original investigations or are blonde composites to draw in the suburbanite moms who are already too scared to watch anything. Directors like Chomsky was in your face, selected spot of characters, was not afraid to direct a film with mostly men nor sold out to a female audience to water down the film. You can count on films from Chomsky or from this era. Excellent music, paces very well and does not linger on "romance" to keep women watch. He tells the story with impact and truth and the element of surprise based on that truth. They do not make them this way anymore. Great for library collection to share with friends who appreciate fine quality work of that time.

Although this made for tv film is over 20 years old, it is riveting to watch. The true story of Joe Hunt,an ambitious and brilliant young man with distorted values climbing the corporate ladder and convincing all those around him to knowingly cross moral boundaries, holds your interest from start to finish. The lead actor "Judd Nelson" is absolutely mesmerizing in every scene. The fact that you even feel some measure of sympathy for him is a true test of his topnotch acting. In my opinion, he should have been nominated for an emmy.

Judd Nelson is excellent as Joe Hunt in this true story about greed and murder amongst the rich and privileged of Los Angeles.Joe Hunt came from a poor family and was considered by his former "privileged" classmates as being nerdy, unpopular, and a scholarship kid. After college, Joe became reacquainted with some of his rich former classmates through Dean Karny. He convinced this group of guys that he was an expert in commodities trading and he had a "risk free" strategy that would produce big returns. The guys were very impressed so they gave Joe all of their inheritances to invest in the commodities markets. But instead of investing the money, Joe used their money to rent office space and hire employees for his new company, the Billionaire Boys Club.Joe scammed money from wealthy businessmen, spent some of the money to maintain his lavish lifestyle and the rest he lost in the commodities market. And to keep his investors from getting suspicious, Joe mailed out fake statements that showed a small profit but eventually the investors started asking for their money back. Joe was desperate to find new investors.Joe met Ron Levin, who was a wealthy businessman and con-artist himself. He was hoping to scam Ron Levin out of enough money that he could bail out the BBC. But as it turned out Ron scammed Joe. Joe was furious and decided to kill Ron Levin. Joe's biggest mistake was leaving a hand written "to-do list" at Ron's house. The police found this list and later used it in court. The prosecutor proclaimed, "It's a recipe for murder".In Joe's continual pursuit for more cash, a plot was hatched to kidnap Hedayat Eslaminia, a rich former Iranian official and hold him for ransom. This plot didn't work either and Joe was losing control over the guys. Two of the guys secretly went to the police and this led to the end of the BBC.Two especially good books were written about this story. They are as follows:The Billionaire Boys Club by Sue HortonThe Price of Experience by Randall Sullivan

hard to find.judd after brat pack films is awesome in this

I remember when this film was on TV back in the late 80's, and it was absolutely one of the most well written, well acted, well scripted movies on television at that time. Judd Nelson was the stand out as he brought to life to real life murderer, Joe Hunt and the murder of Ron Levin and Reza Eslaminia, and the crazy scheme to rob them of their money, while running a crazy a crazy Ponzi Scheme to pay off his investors. Well worth the money. I hear there is a new movie coming out on this film, staring Kevin Spacey and other younger cast members. Can't wait to compare the two.

I was sitting in a resturaunt and I heard a the pet shop boys song from this movie and I thought, "Billionaire Boys Club, I remember watching it after I taped the TV miniseries on betamax." I looked it up on netflix and it was not available. I wanted to watch it again, so I looked it up on Amazon and it was available for a very affordable price. My husband and I both remember it from the 80s and it was nice to watch it soon after the thought crossed my mind. It was just as good as I remember it to be:)

Wife wanted it for valentines day got it for her she watched it and loved it. Nice picture good story.

I first saw this movie back in the late 80's and was hoping that it would come out on DVD. I originally had this on VHS but we all know what happened to that.I would add this movie to your Wall Street, Rogue Trader, Trading Places, Other People's Money and Barbarians at the Gate movie collection.It's over 3 hours long but the suspense will keep you watching.Enjoy!

There are some great acting performances in this movie. It is easily one of Judd Nelson's best acting roles.Just buy it... it's worth every penny.