...blustery and unsophisticated, like many of the movies of Oliver Stone.
Wall Street (1987)
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Reviews Counted: 45
Fresh: 35
Rotten:10
Average Rating: 6.9/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 6 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: Oliver Stone opened fire on the greed decade of the 1980s with this morality tale set on Wall Street. It stars Charlie Sheen as Bud Fox, an ambitious rookie stockbroker from a blue-collar... Oliver Stone opened fire on the greed decade of the 1980s with this morality tale set on Wall Street. It stars Charlie Sheen as Bud Fox, an ambitious rookie stockbroker from a blue-collar background who is mesmerized by Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas), a Mephistophelean superbroker who specializes in corporate takeovers. Despite his initial resistance to Bud's entreaties, Gekko finally takes on the eager beaver as his protégé, schooling him in the kind of slash-and-burn maneuvers that have taken Gekko to the top. This style is far more attractive to Fox than the more prosaic but principled approach to investing preached by veteran Lou Mannheim (Hal Holbrook). And, at first, it's impossible to dispute his preference; as Bud's life moves into the fast lane, he quickly acquires an upscale apartment and a girlfriend to match, interior designer Darien (Darryl Hannah). But when Gekko demands that Bud not only break the law but directly undermine his union-leader father, Carl (Martin Sheen), and jeopardize the jobs and lives of his friends and family, he realizes that the cost of success might be more than he's willing to pay. WALL STREET is a riveting, testosterone-fueled tour of the Street's upper echelons, featuring standout performances by Michael Douglas and Martin Sheen. [More]
Starring: Michael Douglas, Charlie Sheen, Martin Sheen, Daryl Hannah
Starring: Michael Douglas, Charlie Sheen, Martin Sheen, Daryl Hannah, Terence Stamp, James Spader, Sylvia Miles, Sean Young, Hal Holbrook, John C. McGinley, James Karen
Director: Oliver Stone
Director: Oliver Stone
Screenwriter: Stanley Weiser, Oliver Stone
Producer: Edward R. Pressman
Composer: Stewart Copeland
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Release:
Mar 31, 2009
Blu-ray Disc Features:
- Region [unknown]
- NTSC
- Keep Case
- Full Frame - 1.33
- Widescreen - 2.35
Audio:
- 5.1 DTS HD Master Audio - English
- Mono - French, Spanish
- Subtitles - English, French, Spanish - Optional
Additional Release Material:
- Featurette: "Greed is Good"
- Behind the Scenes: "Money Never Sleeps: The Making of WALL STREET"
- Alternate Scenes: Deleted Scenes (w/ Optional Commentary)
- Trailers: High Definition Theatrical Trailers
- Introduction: Oliver Stone - Director
- Audio Commentary: Oliver Stone - Director
Reviews for Wall Street
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.
The sensibility of this movie is so adolescent that it's hard to take it as seriously as the filmmakers intend us to.
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.
Watching 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.
Stone's attack on the excesses of the Me Decade could easily be dubbed Mr. Smith Goes to Wall Street.
Though it's set in urban New York, the jungle in this morality tale is similar to the one in Stone's former film, Platoon: In both, Charlie Sheen plays a youth torn between two father figures representing Good (Martin Sheen) and Evil (Michael Douglas)
If it's possible to have dialogue that's too stunning for the film's own good, that's the case with "Wall Street."
Wall Street is Stone's snarling condemnation of the Go-Go junk bond king buy 'em, break 'em, and sell off the parts '80s.
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