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Charlie Sheen, Michael Douglas, Daryl Hannah, Martin Sheen, Terence Stamp
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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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.
I enjoyed it but I wouldn't say it was a classic. But Gecko's "Greed is good" moment is top notch.
Oliver Stone 'light'. It does get down and dirty at times, not as down and dirty as it could get in his other films. I didn't give it a lower rating becauce of that...just saying.
A bunch of people talking and arguing about making lots of money. Above all else, it just wasn't very interesting.
All I have to say is the scene with the speak about greed, American classic.
Greed is Good! utters Gorden Gecko, unfortunately Charlie Sheen's keen Bud Fox is out to make the same kind of millions, unfortunately how those millions are earned is something that Bud is unable to cope with.
