Wall Street (1987)
Wall Street (1987)
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Critic Consensus: With Wall Street, Oliver Stone delivers a blunt but effective -- and thoroughly well-acted -- jeremiad against its era's veneration of greed as a means to its own end.
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Cast
as Gordon Gekko
as Bud Fox
as Carl Fox
as Darien Taylor
as Sir Larry Wildman
as Kate Gekko
as Realtor
as Roger Barnes
as Lou Mannheim
as Harold Salt
as Marvin
as Dan
as Lynch
as Cromwell
as Ollie
as Mrs. Fox
as Muffie Livingston
as Woman at '21'
as Chuckie
as Carolyn
as Chuckie
as Natalie
as Natalie's Assistant
as Charlie
as Receptionist
as Susan
as Banker at "21"
as Hooker
as Lady Broker
as Woman at "Le Cirdue"
as Airline Mechanic
as Reporter
as TV Business Analyst
as Butler
as Candice Rogers
as Stone Livingston
as Houseboy
as Panos
as Young Broker
as Paralegal
as Rudy Gekko
as Janet
as SEC Man
as Tom Carpenter
as Investment Banker
as Postal Inspector
as Trader - Office
as Trader - Office
as Trader - Office
as Trader - Office
as Trader - Office
as Elevator Person
as Elevator Person
as Elevator Person
as Elevator Person
as Trader - Office
as Dominick
as Duncan Wilmore
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Critic Reviews for Wall Street
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The sensibility of this movie is so adolescent that it's hard to take it as seriously as the filmmakers intend us to.
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.
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.
Audience Reviews for Wall Street
With Michael Douglas in a superb and unforgettable performance as the voracious shark Gordon Gekko, this is an excellent film that relies on an elegant dialogue to tell us a fascinating story about man's greedy desire to score more and more in the stock market game of power.
Super Reviewer
I'll be honest, I'm not the biggest Oliver Stone fan. He's some great films (Platoon, Natural Born Killers) but I find that his films basically deal with the same subject. However with Wall Street he makes a very solid, and entertaining film about a Wall Street Broker, Bud Fox (Charlie Sheen) who is eager to make it big on Wall Street. The film examines Fox's relationship with Corporate raider Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas) and how both men use insider trading information to make large sums of money. Only when his relationship with Gekko sours does Bud Fox destroy Gekko with his competition. Wall Street is an interesting film that takes a good look at corporate greed and how some people will do anything to gain fortunes. Brilliantly acted by Michael Douglass and Charlie Sheen, Wall Street is an effective dramatic thriller that is very suspenseful. Oliver Stone delivers a good film and the cast here are terrific. Wall Street is a well crafted film that is one of Stone's best films. If you're looking for a good, entertaining film that makes insider trading an interesting subject for a film, then Wall Street is that film. The film may not be perfect, but it delivers good entertainment and like I said it's one of Stone's best films aside from Platoon. Oliver Stone has succeeded in making a not so interesting subject entertaining for a film, and for the most part, Wall Street succeeds in deliver solid drama and thrills. A worthy film to watch for sure.
Super Reviewer
Eh, I thought it was going to be better. Gordon Gekko isn't as cool as I thought he was going to be.
Super Reviewer
Wall Street Quotes
| Gordon Gekko: | Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. |
| Bud Fox: | That is horseshit! You step out that door and I am changing the locks! |
| Gordon Gekko: | Greed Is Good. |
| Gordon Gekko: | Greed Is good. |
| Gordon Gekko: | The most valuable commodity I know of is information. |
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