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The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990)
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Release Date:
21 December 1990 (USA)
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Tagline:
Take one Wall Street tycoon, his Fifth Avenue mistress, a reporter hungry for fame, and make the wrong turn in The Bronx...then sit back and watch the sparks fly. more
Plot:
Financial "Master of the Universe" Sherman McCoy sees his life unravel when his mistress Maria Ruskin hits a black boy with his car...
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Awards:
5 nominations
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What was wrong with this movie to get such bad reviews? I actually liked it.
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Tom Hanks | ... | Sherman McCoy |
 | Bruce Willis | ... | Peter Fallow |
 | Melanie Griffith | ... | Maria Ruskin |
 | Kim Cattrall | ... | Judy McCoy |
 | Saul Rubinek | ... | Jed Kramer |
 | Morgan Freeman | ... | Judge Leonard White |
 | John Hancock | ... | Reverend Bacon |
 | Kevin Dunn | ... | Tom Killian |
| Clifton James | ... | Albert Fox |
| Louis Giambalvo | ... | Ray Andruitti |
| Barton Heyman | ... | Det. Martin |
| Norman Parker | ... | Det. Goldberg |
| Donald Moffat | ... | Mr. McCoy |
 | Alan King | ... | Arthur Ruskin |
| Beth Broderick | ... | Caroline Heftshank |
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Rated R for language.
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Runtime:
125 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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1.85 : 1 more
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70 mm 6-Track (70 mm prints) |
Dolby (35 mm prints)
Certification:
Singapore:NC-16 |
New Zealand:PG |
Argentina:13 |
Australia:M |
Chile:14 |
Finland:K-14 |
France:U |
Sweden:11 (video rating) |
Sweden:7 |
UK:15 |
USA:R |
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Tom Killian is based upon Edward Hayes.
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Continuity: While Reverend Bacon is accusing District Attorney Abe Weiss, the TV remote control that Weiss is using switches hands between shots.
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Judge Leonard White:
Racist? You dare call me racist? Well I say unto you, what does it matter the color of a man's skin if witnesses purjure themselves, if a prosecutor enlists the perjurers, when a district attorney throws a man to the mob for political gain, and men of the cloth...
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Referenced in "The Directors: The Films of Adrian Lyne" (????)
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Soundtrack:
Don Giovanni
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Bonfire of the vanities. A movie that has the reputation of being awful. I didn't think so. I saw it a long time ago but liked it. I have heard so much about how bad this movie was and never understood why. It isn't the best movie definitely not but there are so many BAD movies-this movie had a message (a pretty sad one) and the story was Involving. My attention was captured. I wanted to see what would happen next.
This movie is so true to life. There ARE people out there whose actions would be worse then some in this movie. People whose lives are motivated by greed. (The worst bad movie out there that I've seen that tells the story of truly horrendous people motivated by greed and power is "in the company of men". Much more unpleasant then this movie.) This movie, I GUESS is controversial, not considered as good as the book and maybe it was ahead of its time. I think it's worth seeing though and would give it a 7.