Barbarians at the Gate (1993) on Netflix
R19931h 47mBiographyComedyDrama
F. Ross Johnson, president and chief executive of RJR Nabisco, learns that Premier, the company's smokeless cigarette, will likely fail in the market. He decides to take the company private.
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RJR Nabisco is a conglomerate with tobacco and food businesses, and F. Ross Johnson, a self-made multimillionaire, serves as its president and chief executive. The company had developed Premier, a smokeless cigarette, in the hope of lifting its stock price, and Johnson receives advanced news that the product will likely be a commercial failure. He decides to take the company private himself in 1988. Henry Kravis, a pioneer of the leveraged buyout, and his cousin oppose him. Kravis had discussed such a deal with Johnson beforehand, and he objects when Johnson instead takes the matter to Shearson Lehman Hutton, the American Express division.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Barbarians at the Gate (1993)
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- The title of the book and movie comes from a statement by Forstmann, who called Kravis's money "phoney junk bond crap" and said that to stop raiders like Kravis, "We need to push the barbarians back from the city gates."
- The film earned nine nominations at the Primetime Emmy Awards, winning Outstanding Made for Television Movie, and won Golden Globes for Best Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television and Best Actor for James Garner.
