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At the
center of this real-life roller coaster, Younger placed Seth Davis,
whose hunger for the fast money of the boiler room belies a deeper
struggle for acceptance and love from his father, a respected New York
judge. "Seth is a 19 year-old who is much brighter than most of his
peers. But as smart and successful as Seth is, he still needs his dad
to love him," notes Younger. "Thatīs his personal dilemma. Heīs so
quick and he could be so successful in life, but he canīt quite escape
his fatherīs reach. The boiler room is Sethīs way of reaching out to
his dad, but their definitions of success are completely opposite. His
struggle to do the right thing is the emotional core of the movie and
has a lot of truth to it."
Seth
wants it both ways - he wants the easy cash as well as the hard-won
closeness with his parents - but his choices bring down the whole
house of cards and put him and his father in the middle of a Federal
crime investigation.
"What
I found is that in these places itīs almost like a competitive
athletic game. Itīs all about the win, about making the sale and being
able to say īmy car cost $250,000,ī"observes Ribisi. "But these guys
work hard. The guys I observed made literally 700 calls a day,
sometimes even doing what they call double-fisting, talking on two
phones at the same time."
Ribisi
found himself sympathetic to Seth Davisī plight. "He really is just a
kid who becomes so driven for the money and the success that he almost
gets his whole world pulled out from under him," notes the actor. "All
he really wants is a relationship with his father. But the boiler
rooms draw you in and a guy like Seth finds himself lying and yelling
and screwing people over without realizing whatīs happening to him."
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