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Wall Street

  • 1987
  • R
  • 2h 6m
IMDb RATING
7.3/10
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Michael Douglas, Charlie Sheen, and Daryl Hannah in Wall Street (1987)
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An impatient young stockbroker is willing to do anything to get to the top, including trading on illegal inside information taken through a ruthless, greedy corporate raider who takes the yo... Read allAn impatient young stockbroker is willing to do anything to get to the top, including trading on illegal inside information taken through a ruthless, greedy corporate raider who takes the youth under his wing.An impatient young stockbroker is willing to do anything to get to the top, including trading on illegal inside information taken through a ruthless, greedy corporate raider who takes the youth under his wing.

  • Director
    • Oliver Stone
  • Writers
    • Stanley Weiser
    • Oliver Stone
  • Stars
    • Charlie Sheen
    • Michael Douglas
    • Tamara Tunie
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  • IMDb RATING
    7.3/10
    160K
    YOUR RATING
    POPULARITY
    2,800
    110
    • Director
      • Oliver Stone
    • Writers
      • Stanley Weiser
      • Oliver Stone
    • Stars
      • Charlie Sheen
      • Michael Douglas
      • Tamara Tunie
    • 255User reviews
    • 116Critic reviews
    • 56Metascore
  • See more at IMDbPro
    • Won 1 Oscar
      • 10 wins & 5 nominations total

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    Charlie Sheen
    Charlie Sheen
    • Bud Fox
    Michael Douglas
    Michael Douglas
    • Gordon Gekko
    Tamara Tunie
    Tamara Tunie
    • Carolyn
    Franklin Cover
    Franklin Cover
    • Dan
    Chuck Pfeiffer
    • Chuckie
    • (as Chuck Pfeifer)
    John C. McGinley
    John C. McGinley
    • Marvin
    Hal Holbrook
    Hal Holbrook
    • Lou Mannheim
    James Karen
    James Karen
    • Lynch
    Leslie Lyles
    • Natalie
    Faith Geer
    • Natalie's Assistant
    Frank Adonis
    Frank Adonis
    • Charlie
    John Capodice
    John Capodice
    • Dominick
    Martin Sheen
    Martin Sheen
    • Carl Fox
    Suzen Murakoshi
    Suzen Murakoshi
    • Girl in Bed
    Dani Klein
    • Receptionist
    François Giroday
    • Alex
    Josh Mostel
    Josh Mostel
    • Ollie
    Ann Talman
    Ann Talman
    • Susan
    • Director
      • Oliver Stone
    • Writers
      • Stanley Weiser
      • Oliver Stone
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    Storyline

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    Did you know

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    • Trivia
      The first feature film to show a character using a mobile cellular telephone.
    • Goofs
      At the beginning of the movie, Bud Fox and Marvin say Gordon Gekko was shorting NASA stock right after the Challenger explosion. The scene is set in 1985, but the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded January 28, 1986.
    • Quotes

      Gordon Gekko: The richest one percent of this country owns half our country's wealth, five trillion dollars. One third of that comes from hard work, two thirds comes from inheritance, interest on interest accumulating to widows and idiot sons and what I do, stock and real estate speculation. It's bullshit. You got ninety percent of the American public out there with little or no net worth. I create nothing. I own. We make the rules, pal. The news, war, peace, famine, upheaval, the price per paper clip. We pick that rabbit out of the hat while everybody sits out there wondering how the hell we did it. Now you're not naive enough to think we're living in a democracy, are you buddy? It's the free market. And you're a part of it. You've got that killer instinct. Stick around pal, I've still got a lot to teach you.

    • Crazy credits
      Building illustrations are shown during entire end credits
    • Connections
      Featured in Siskel & Ebert: The Duxorcist/Walker/Manon of the Spring/The Dead (1987)
    • Soundtracks
      Fly Me to the Moon
      Words and Music by Bart Howard (ASCAP)

      Published by The Hampshire House Publishing Corp. (ASCAP)

      Performed by Frank Sinatra

      Courtesy of Reprise Records

      By Arrangement with Warner Special Products

    User reviews255

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    7/10
    Do the Wall Street Shuffle...
    Epochal film from the 80's, which has almost unbelievably, in today's post Merrill Lynch / Northern Rock (depending on which side of the pond you're on) banking debacles become topical again, so much so that a same director / same star follow-up is reportedly in the making.

    It will have to go some though to beat the shock and awe value of its prototype, with Douglas' larger than life personification of corporate greed, Gordon Gekko, dominating proceedings. Charlie Sheen is the young trader on the make, aiming to aspire, or so he thinks, to Gekko's status and success, trying so hard to please his idol that he not only ends up aping his appearance (slicked back hair, big suspender braces) but even betraying his idealistic union-man father by relaying insider knowledge on the latter's ailing airline employer to Gekko who then moves in to welsh on his workforce-friendly words to asset strip the company for massive personal gain. Sheen's Bud Fox character eventually has an epiphany, augured by the coincidence of real-life and cinema dad Martin copping a heart attack and turns on and indeed turns in his guru to the authorities to bring ultimate closure to the piece.

    The film has its faults; I didn't quite buy into Douglas surrogate-father figure appeal to Sheen Jr., the coincidental heart attack of Sheen/Fox Sr is a bit too pat and some of the supporting characters come on like mere ciphers, including Terence Stamp as the UK magnate-cum-nemesis of Gekko and Daryl Hannah as a Gekko cast-off girlfriend/groupie who becomes young Sheen's trophy girl-friend. This leads to a larger criticism on the paucity of female characters in the film at all, but if you can accept that this is a man's man's man's world, to paraphrase James Brown, then this morality tale of its time still packs a punch, especially with the collapse of Communism and the surrender of the likes of Russia, China et. al to the addictive drug of big-bucks capitalism.

    Stone's camera is constantly on the move, capturing the frenetic-ism of dealers on the trading floor as market frenzy takes hold, with the dialogue razor-sharp throughout, so many of the phrases of course having become clichés for that era, almost entering common parlance the language, such as greed is good, lunch is for wimps and more.

    In the end, young Sheen would have done well to be careful what he wished for, but if he's the Little Red Riding Hood to Douglas' Big Bad Wolf, this particular out-sized fairy tale reaches its conclusion fittingly and satisfyingly, opening up a seamy, selfish world that you know is out there still, now more than ever.
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    • Is Wall Street based on a book?
    • Who is Gordon Gekko?
    • Was the phrase "Greed is good" really uttered in the film?

    Details

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    • Release date
      • December 11, 1987 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Official site
      • Official site
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Phố Wall
    • Filming locations
      • 60 W. 75th St, New York City, New York, USA(Bud's first apartment building)
    • Production companies
      • Twentieth Century Fox
      • Amercent Films
      • American Entertainment Partners L.P.
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    Box office

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    • Budget
      • $15,000,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $43,848,069
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $4,104,611
      • Dec 13, 1987
    • Gross worldwide
      • $43,848,069
    See detailed box office info on IMDbPro

    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      2 hours 6 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Stereo
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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