Charlie Sheen, Michael Douglas, Daryl Hannah
Enterprising stockbroker Bud Fox (Charlie Sheen) falls under the enticing spell of Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas), an unabashedly greedy Wall Street arbitrageur. Gekko takes Fox under his wing, tutori...( read more
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DVD Release Date: November 7, 2000
Stats: 1,872 reviews
A classic piece on 80?s yuppy bankers who feed off greed. I?m looking forward to the sequel, although with today?s current financial climate, I?m puzzled as to how they?re going to go about it?
"Greed, for lack of a better word, is good."
A young and impatient stockbroker is willing to do anything to get to the top, including trading on illegal inside information taken through a ruthless and greedy corporate raider whom takes the youth under his wing.
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Wall Street is Oliver Stone's love letter to the bears and the bulls that spells out what the hell those guys in Manhattan were doing in the mid 1980's. The film revolves around young Bud Fox, a low level stock broker who not only dreams of being rich he's obsessed by it. He is a...( read more)
Would've been better without the preachy-ness. Needed to be told from Gecko's POV.
Some great moments that are classic. Probably one of Oliver Stone's best.
Before [Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps] coming out, episode 1 still signifies well.
The brilliance of arguably Oliver Stone's seminal film is its pace. Wall Street is an unrelenting, balls to the wall, keep up or you're lost two hour theater production. From the instant the movie begins straight through to the end, the story does not stop to explain the mechanic...( read more)
Another true picture of a Money Hungered fanatical Country,
Which is again responsible for the turmoil in the world , this time in the FINANCIAL WORLD...
Make no mistake this is a coca cola country with a coca cola culture and by the looks of things they will have to survive on Disney Dollars
MANY THANKS TO OUR YANKEE COUSINS
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