December 7, 2008
Kind of mess from DePalma. Sorry to say.
Tom Hanks, Bruce Willis, Melanie Griffith
The 1980s were wearing thin when Tom Wolfe delivered this biting commentary about the shallowness of an investment banker in a messed-up place called New York City. Sherman McCoy knows how to make a l...( read more
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DVD Release Date: November 6, 2001
Stats: 245 reviews
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October 3, 2006A misfire but not an uninteresting misfire. The cast tries quite hard but it's just not pulled off very well.
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November 22, 2009I'm amazed that this movie received such a high number of downer reviews. It is very funny! Something of a dark comedy, but not really. A completely realistic story about a large number of amoral, smarmy, and apathetic characters, ignorant and arrogant as all hell, all in their o...( read more)
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January 16, 2009Nicely mounted but wildly miscast adaptation of Tom Wolfe's terrific satirical novel. Like the characters in the film, done in by its own ill-consideration and hubris. Still, it does replicate some cool scenes from the book.
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July 9, 2008Review will be written when/if re-watched (Probability: Zero).
First viewing: 06.04.1999 -
June 2, 2008It was kinda weird..bcuz i was expective something different but it was good after all...
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