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.
- Won 1 Oscar
- 9 wins & 4 nominations total
- Chuckie
- (as Chuck Pfeifer)
- Director
- Writers
- All cast & crew
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe first feature film to show a character using a mobile cellular telephone.
- GoofsAt 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 creditsBuilding illustrations are shown during entire end credits
- Alternate versionsIn the VHS release, instead of the correct 1981-1994 20th Century Fox logo, the 1953-1981 logo is used.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Siskel & Ebert: The Duxorcist/Walker/Manon of the Spring/The Dead (1987)
- SoundtracksFly 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
Arrangement by Quincy Jones (uncredited)
Details
- Release date
- Country of origin
- Official site
- Language
- Also known as
- El poder y la avaricia
- Filming locations
- 60 W. 75th St, New York City, New York, USA(Bud's first apartment building)
- Production companies
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Box office
- 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
- Runtime2 hours 6 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1