Set during the height of the late 1980s insider-trading scandals, WALL STREET stars Charlie Sheen as Bud Fox, an ambitious young broker who falls under the spell of superbroker Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas). Initially awed by the glitz and wealth of the older man, Bud is all too eager follow his commands, especially after enjoying their results. But he soon realizes that he too is merely a pawn in Gekko's game, as he labors frantically to disentangle his loved ones from the consequences of his own ambition.
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Entertainment Weekly, 05/17/1996, pp.68-9, "...Douglas puts his character's ideas across with such seductive self-assurance that conservatives could easily ignore the irony..." USA Today, 11/17/2000, p.13E, "...A richly cast sex-and-power melodrama..." Premiere, 04/01/2004, p.68, "[T]he 'greed is good' speech that Gekko delivers before an audience of corporate stockholders is a show-stopper." Variety, 12/09/1987, "...[WALL STREET] is as good a contemporary story as there is today..." Los Angeles Times, 12/11/1987, p.C1, "...It's a wizardly turn by Douglas..."
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The film began shooting April 24, 1987; completed shooting July 4, 1987. Released in the USA December 11, 1987. Shown at the Berlin Film Festival February 1988. Released on video July 7, 1988.
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"Greed is good."--Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas)
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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.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews  Greed is Good, February 14, 2008
By Gecko
all stockbrokers and greedy people should be forced to watch this.
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