Wall Street (1987)
Average Rating: 6.8/10
Reviews Counted: 49
Fresh: 38 | Rotten: 11
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Average Rating: 4.2/10
Critic Reviews: 8
Fresh: 2 | Rotten: 6
No consensus yet.
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Average Rating: 3.5/5
User Ratings: 48,495
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"Greed is Good." This is the credo of the aptly named Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas), the antihero of Oliver Stone's Wall Street. Gekko, a high-rolling corporate raider, is idolized by young-and-hungry broker Bud Fox (Charlie Sheen). Inveigling himself into Gekko's inner circle, Fox quickly learns to rape, murder and bury his sense of ethics. Only when Gekko's wheeling and dealing causes a near-tragedy on a personal level does Fox "reform"-though his means of destroying Gekko are every bit as
Dec 11, 1987 Wide
Nov 7, 2000
20th Century Fox
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Cast
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Michael Douglas
Gordon Gekko -
Charlie Sheen
Bud Fox -
Daryl Hannah
Darien Taylor -
Martin Sheen
Carl Fox -
Terence Stamp
Sir Larry Wildman -
Sean Young
Kate Gekko -
Sylvia Miles
Realtor -
James Spader
Roger Barnes -
Hal Holbrook
Lou Mannheim -
John C. McGinley
Marvin -
Saul Rubinek
Harold Salt -
Franklin Cover
Dan -
James Karen
Lynch -
Richard Dysart
Cromwell -
Josh Mostel
Ollie -
Millie Perkins
Mrs. Fox -
Annie McEnroe
Muffie Livingston -
Monique van Vooren
Woman at "21" -
Frank Adonis
Charlie -
Thomas Anderson
Butler -
James Bulleit
Elevator Person -
John Capodice
Dominick -
Jean De Baer
Tom Carpenter -
John Galateo
SEC Man -
Faith Geer
Natalie's Assistant -
Sam Ingraffia
Elevator Person -
Donnie Kehr
Trader - Office -
Dani Klein
Receptionist -
Leslie Lyles
Natalie -
Michael C. Mahon
Trader - Office -
Liliane Montevecchi
Woman at "Le Cirdue" -
Cecilia Peck
Candice Rogers -
Jeff Rector
Trader - Office -
Carol Schneider
Paralegal -
Grant Shaud
Young Broker -
Pat Skipper
Postal Inspector -
Sean Stone
Rudy Gekko -
Andrea Thompson
Hooker -
Lauren Tom
Lady Broker -
Byron Utley
Elevator Person -
Ronald Von Klaussen
Airline Mechanic -
Ronald Yamamoto
Houseboy -
Jeff Beck
Investment Banker -
Adelle Lutz
Janet -
Michael O'Donoghue
Reporter -
Oliver Stone
Trader - Office -
Pirie MacDonald
TV Business Analyst -
Alexandra Neil
Elevator Person -
Chuck Preiffer
Chuckie -
Martin Sherman
Banker at "21" -
Ann Talman
Susan -
Patrick Weathers
Trader - Office -
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Ken Lipper
Trader - Office -
Paul Guilfoyle
Stone Livingston -
Yanni Sfinias
Panos -
William Hubbard Knight
Duncan Wilmore
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All Critics (49) | Top Critics (8) | Fresh (44) | Rotten (12) | DVD (32)
The sensibility of this movie is so adolescent that it's hard to take it as seriously as the filmmakers intend us to.
Top CriticWatching Oliver Stone's Wall Street is about as wordy and dreary as reading the financial papers accounts of the rise and fall of an Ivan Boesky-type arbitrageur.
Dramatically inept, the film also muddles its naïve moralising.
Wall Street isn't a movie to make one think. It simply confirms what we all know we should think, while giving us a tantalizing, Sidney Sheldon-like peek into the boardrooms and bedrooms of the rich and powerful.
With its posturing politics and cardboard characterizations, Wall Street is not up to [Oliver Stone's] past standards.
In Wall Street...you will see the evil, capitalistic impulses of man. Towards the end, you will see the self-righteous impulses of liberal finger-waggers. It's hard to tell which is worse.
...an eye-opening behind-the-scenes glimpse at an almost alien landscape.
For a motion picture that, at the time of shooting, was intended to be relatively hip and cutting-edge, it is now so laughably outdated it almost feels like science-fiction.
Like the rest of Stone's oeuvre, it's about as subtle as a sledgehammer. But his filmmaking style is like heavy metal: When he hits the right chords, nobody plays with as much power or brash energy.
Unfortunately, Wall Street remains a fascinating specimen of modern-day American power lust, a tragic moral lesson our financial players have yet to learn.
Some of the 1980s-era details may seem a bit dated, and the movie's attitude toward women is slightly despicable, but the overall story arc, echoing the "Faust" tale, is timeless.
...blustery and unsophisticated, like many of the movies of Oliver Stone.
All the performances are excellent with the emotional highlights including the father/son emotional angst between Sheen and his real life father Martin Sheen.
It's solid, but no showcase for HD.
a compelling drama that is exceedingly well acted (with the obvious exception of the wretched Daryl Hannah)
A big, glossy movie that satirises the whole yuppie ethos more than anything else.
Writer-director Oliver Stone, who shows an uncanny knack for anticipating public interest in the subjects he chooses, explores the much-publicized inside trading scandals of the mid-1980s.
There's a director's introduction, deleted scenes, and two featurettes: one on the making of the film and the other on the motto: 'Greed is good."
Greed may be good, but this anniversary edition of Oliver Stone's humorless '80s satire is exceedingly generous with extras.
Stone's attack on the excesses of the Me Decade could easily be dubbed Mr. Smith Goes to Wall Street.
Wall Street is for all the ladder-climbers out there, and all the people under them who feel like rungs.
Audience Reviews for Wall Street
Super Reviewer
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- Gordon Gekko: Greed, for lack of a better word, is good.
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- Bud Fox: That is horseshit! You step out that door and I am changing the locks!
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- Gordon Gekko: Greed Is good.
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- Gordon Gekko: The most valuable commodity I know of is information.
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- Gordon Gekko: Money never sleeps, pal.
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- Lou Mannheim: The main thing about money, Bud, is that it makes you do things you don't want to do.
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WALL STREET is a likeable, well-made drama, engaging from the very start. Admittedly, it isn't perfect, nor does it feel like a vile cheat. Even after over two hours of familiarizing ourselves with the characters, immersing ourselves in their idiosyncrasies and peccant personalities, the ending is still a bit of a surprise-and it sums up the film more concisely than almost any other conclusion I've ever seen. Revealing that one, strong moral would instantaneously disclose countless spoilers, so under downright obligation, I will refrain from saying anything more. Besides, what more can I say? WALL STREET, for lack of a better word, is good.
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