| Barbarians at the Gate |  | | Directed by | Glenn Jordan | | Produced by | Ray Stark | | Written by | Larry Gelbart
Based on book by
Bryan Burrough
John Helyar | | Starring | James Garner
Johnathan Pryce | | Music by | | | Cinematography | {{{cinematography}}} | | Editing by | {{{editing}}} | | Distributed by | Home Box Office | | Released | 1993 (USA) | | Running time | 107 min. | | Language | English | | Budget | | | Preceded by | {{{preceded_by}}} | | Followed by | {{{followed_by}}} | | IMDb profile | Barbarians at the Gate is a made-for-TV movie based upon the book by Bryan Burrough and John Helyar, about the leveraged buyout (LBO) of RJR Nabisco. Ray Stark (October 3, 1915 - January 17, 2004) was a film producer and powerbroker known for his Machiavellian ways. ...
Larry Gelbart (b. ...
James Garner as Jim Egan in 8 Simple Rules James Garner (born April 7, 1928) is an American film and television actor of partially Cherokee Indian descent. ...
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1993 (MCMXCIII) is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ...
Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco (ISBN 0060161728) is a book by Bryan Burrough and John Helyar, about the leveraged buyout (LBO) of RJR Nabisco. ...
A leveraged buyout (or LBO, or highly-leveraged transaction (HLT), or bootstrap transaction) occurs when a financial sponsor gains control of a majority of a target companys equity through the use of borrowed money or debt. ...
RJR Nabisco, Inc. ...
The film was directed by Glenn Jordan and stars James Garner as F. Ross Johnson, the CEO of R.J.R. Nabisco with plans to buy out the rest of the Nabisco shareholders. One of the reasons Johnson is trying to buy the company is due to the likely market failure of the company's smokeless cigarette called Premier. James Garner as Jim Egan in 8 Simple Rules James Garner (born April 7, 1928) is an American film and television actor of partially Cherokee Indian descent. ...
F. Ross Johnson was the former chief executive of RJR Nabisco. ...
A chief executive officer (CEO) or chief executive is the highest-ranking corporate officer or executive officer of a corporation, company, or agency. ...
A shareholder or stockholder is an individual or company (including a corporation) that legally owns one or more shares of stock in a joint stock company. ...
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The Premier cigarette was a smokeless cigarette released in the USA in 1988 by American tobacco company R.J. Reynolds. ...
The opposition to Johnson's bid for the company is one of the pioneers of the leveraged buyout, Henry Kravis (who is played by Jonathan Pryce) and his cousin George R. Roberts. Kravis was the first person Johnson talked to about doing the LBO, and feels betrayed after learning that Johnson wants to do the deal with another firm, American Express' former Shearson Lehman Hutton division. Ted Forstmann and his Forstmann Little buyout firm also played a prominent role. Henry R. Kravis (born January 6, 1944 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States) is a business financier and investor. ...
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George R. Roberts (1945-) is a financier and was one of the founders of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. ...
American Express NYSE: AXP is a diversified global financial services company headquartered in the United States. ...
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Ted Forstmann Theodore J. Ted Teddy Forstmann (?–) is one of the founding partners of Forstmann Little & Company, a private equity firm. ...
Forstmann Little & Company is a private equity firm, specializing in leveraged buyouts (LBOs). ...
After Kravis and Johnson are unable to reconcile their differences, a bidding war takes place which Johnson will eventually lose. The unfortunate side effect of the augmented buyout price to the shareholders is the creation of a worrying level of debt for the company. Debt is that which is owed. ...
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Jeffrey DeMunn (born April 25, 1947 in Buffalo, New York) is an American theatre, film and television actor. ...
George R. Roberts (1945-) is a financier and was one of the founders of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. ...
James Garner as Jim Egan in 8 Simple Rules James Garner (born April 7, 1928) is an American film and television actor of partially Cherokee Indian descent. ...
F. Ross Johnson was the former chief executive of RJR Nabisco. ...
Peter William Atkins (born 1940) is a Fellow and professor of chemistry at Lincoln College in the University of Oxford. ...
Nicholas C. Nick Forstmann (1947–2000) was one of the founding partners of Forstmann Little & Company, a private equity firm. ...
Jonathan Pryce (b. ...
Henry R. Kravis (born January 6, 1944 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States) is a business financier and investor. ...
David Rasche (born August 7, 1944 in Saint Louis, Missouri) is an American actor. ...
Ted Forstmann Theodore J. Ted Teddy Forstmann (?–) is one of the founding partners of Forstmann Little & Company, a private equity firm. ...
Peter Riegert (born April 11, 1947 in New York City) is perhaps best known for his portrayal of Donald Schoenstein (aka Boon) in 1978s National Lampoons Animal House and as Sam Posner in the 1988 film, Crossing Delancey. ...
Fred Dalton Thompson (born August 19, 1942) is an American lawyer, actor and former Republican senator from Tennessee. ...
James Robinson James Dixon Robinson III (1930-) was born into one of Atlantas most prominent banking families. ...
Rita Wilson Rita Wilson (born Margarita Ibrahimoff October 26, 1956) is an American actress and producer of Bulgarian (Bulgarian father) and Greek (Greek mother) descent. ...
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