Boiler Room's got the skills to pay the bills, and pocket some extra cash too. Behind its glittery pitch there is a little real gold, in contrast to the worthless stocks its testosterone-stoked chop-shop brokers unload to suckers from their "boiler room," or trading floor phone-bank. But the attention-grabbing hard sell is definitely the m.o. of both director Younger and his characters, and the movie seems a lot more compelling in the heat of the moment than when you're doing the math afterwards. Cheerfully acknowledging its own aspirations to be a kind of young guns Glengarry Glen Ross or hottie Wall Street, Boiler Room carries you along with fast-paced editing and likeable performances from Giovanni Ribisi, Nicky Katt, and Vin Diesel. Ron Rifkin, representin' the Glengarry generation, is badder then Ben Affleck and the other li'l brokers as a hardass judge who's the father of Ribisi's protagonist. The family drama scenes between Ribisi and Rifkin, and the scenes involving a hapless client of Ribisi's who wants his money back provide the movie with a solid sense of the broader ramifications of the sleazy profiteering of the boiler room, but both unfortunately go a couple of steps too far into schmaltz.