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Title: The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990)
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| 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 | |
Financial "Master of the Universe" Sherman McCoy sees his life unravel when his mistress Maria Ruskin hits a black boy with his car. When yellow journalist Peter Fallow enflames public opinion with a series of distorted tabloid articles on the accident, the case is seized upon by opportunists like Reverend Bacon and mayoral candidate D.A. Abe Weiss. Written by Jon Reeves <jreeves@imdb.com>
Before I talk about the movie itself, I'd like to get ugly for a quick sec..
I am sick and tired of people whining that a movie isn't as good as a book. First of all, we all already know that 99% of the time a book is not equally rendered in film. How can it? The physiological experience of reading is totally different from that of taking in audio-video. Hello? A book often can't fit into a 90 minute movie anyway, and we all complain when a director tries to stretch our minute-rice attention span more than 2 hours, which would allow the space to capture more of the subtle nuances that we love in a book.
If you want to read the book, do us all a favour, don't watch a movie, go read the #@%$ book. Does anyone think that a painting could represent each facet of a poem? They are two separate and distinct mediums. Sheesh.
Now, book aside, this movie is trying to talk about an issue. And it does so quite fine. If you need the book to get the message, that's your business.
Each character was a caricature, a spoof, hyperbolized to help drive home the message that truth is often irrelevant to the socio-political motives behind people's actions. From the "assistant DA" looking for recognition to the "hymie racist" angling for the office of mayor to the "good reverend" looking for sympathy for his people (and a payday) to Fallow trying to save his career to McCoy's lawyer who has to patiently deal with his naive client who doesn't grasp that his life is insignificant to all those who somehow have generated a vested interest in his demise...
I got the message, it didn't take me the 6 hours or two days (or however long it would take me to make time to read the book), and I had some fun.