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  • Like, it seems as if Giovanni Ribisi is playing the Carter J. Burke role from Aliens — the corporate stooge willing to do anything for a profit margin.

    New 'Avatar' trailer: Coming into explosive focus | EW.com 2009

  • Ribisi is a great talent and Marsden is shaping up that way as he shows us more and more of his serious talent.

    Filmstalker: 10th and Wolf trailer online 2006

  • A cross between the hard-reality salesman drama of “Glengarry Glen Ross” (Affleck’s character wants to be Alec Baldwin) and the rise-and-fall cautionary tale of “Wall Street” (Ribisi is Charlie Sheen, basically), the young, power-hungry characters in “Boiler Room” know both movies by heart and, in one scene, sit around and recite lines to “Wall Street” as if it were sacred text.

    Top 10 Modern Corporate Greed Movies » Scene-Stealers 2008

  • Luke Wilson and Giovanni Ribisi are teaming up to become Middle Men, an indie drama about the birth ...

    The Final Movie Review–A Surprising And Deep Piece 2009

  • This looks like a fun romp .. not totally sold on the leading man, he seems miscast, but I love Giovanni Ribisi and to see him as a coke head putting porn on the web will be awesome!

    Paramount Buys Middle Man, Watch the Red Band Movie Trailer Now! | /Film 2010

  • The Rum Diary is a ramshackle jalopy of a movie, a bumpy ride that yields amusements and diversions here and there, and several interesting or loopy performances – including Aaron Eckhart as a slick resort developer Depp takes a dislike to, and Giovanni Ribisi as some breed of alcoholic Nazi-idolator.

    Johnny Depp is back as a very different Hunter S Thompson 2011

  • Bunch of marines, with Sigourney Weaver, in tow, is harassed by a corporate big wig, this time played by Giovanni Ribisi, instead of Paul Riser.

    Five Reasons Avatar Sucked | myFiveBest 2010

  • Psst: Watch as the despairing woman runs through an apartment building, flicking past windows, as we spy on her: one of the windows momentarily frames a curious little painting that turns out to be an oil of the actor Giovanni Ribisi, rendered by Prager's sister, Vanessa, who created it especially for a 2007 collaboration on a magazine spread.

    Cat Weaver: The MoMA's New Photography 2010: Post-Appropriation Cat Weaver 2010

  • A college dropout Giovanni Ribisi, eager to prove himself on Wall Street, gets sucked into the seamy world of high-pressure sales and stock scams.

    Strictly Business|Forty Years of Mogul Turpitude on Film 2011

  • Everett Collection 'Boiler Room' (2000) A college dropout ( Giovanni Ribisi ), eager to prove himself on Wall Street, gets sucked into the seamy world of high-pressure sales and stock scams.

    Strictly Business 2011

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