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Wall Street

  • 19871987
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  • 2h 6m
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Michael Douglas, Charlie Sheen, and Daryl Hannah in Wall Street (1987)
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A young and impatient stockbroker is willing to do anything to get to the top, including trading on illegal inside information taken through a ruthless and greedy corporate raider who takes ... Read allA young and impatient stockbroker is willing to do anything to get to the top, including trading on illegal inside information taken through a ruthless and greedy corporate raider who takes the youth under his wing.A young and impatient stockbroker is willing to do anything to get to the top, including trading on illegal inside information taken through a ruthless and greedy corporate raider who takes the youth under his wing.
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    • Oliver Stone
    • Stanley Weiser
    • Oliver Stone
  • Stars
    • Charlie Sheen
    • Michael Douglas
    • Tamara Tunie
    • Oliver Stone
    • Stanley Weiser
    • Oliver Stone
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    • Michael Douglas
    • Tamara Tunie
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    • 254User reviews
    • 116Critic reviews
    • 56Metascore
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    • Won 1 Oscar

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    Charlie Sheen
    Charlie Sheen
    • Bud Fox
    Michael Douglas
    Michael Douglas
    • Gordon Gekko
    Tamara Tunie
    Tamara Tunie
    • Carolyn
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    • 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
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    Frank Adonis
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    • Charlie
    John Capodice
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    • Dominick
    Martin Sheen
    Martin Sheen
    • Carl Fox
    Suzen Murakoshi
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    Josh Mostel
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      • Stanley Weiser
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    • Trivia
      The first feature film to show a character using a cordless 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 At the Movies: The Duxorcist/Walker/Manon of the Spring/The Dead (1987)
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      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

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    Wall Street (1987)

    *** 1/2 (out of 4)

    A second hand broker (Charlie Sheen) dreams of becoming the next Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas), a major player on Wall Street, and eventually gets his shot to impress the big wig. Soon the kid learns that Wall Street is full of lies, cheating and greed and Gekko is willing to take him under his wing but soon he realizes that at some point enough is enough. It's been a while since I watched this film but I was really shocked to see how well it holds up today even though I'm sure many people would attack director Stone for making the Wall Street guys too much of a villain and perhaps adding too much of his conspiracy theories to trading. I don't think there's any doubt that Stone is using this film as a "warning" to those who give their last dollars to these major companies only to have bloodsuckers like Gekko come down and become richer while the poor become poorer. Some would argue this is overdamatics on the part of Stone but I'm sure there would be many who would say he was shining the light on evil greed. Either way this film holds up remarkably well thanks in large part to the terrific performances but also because the characters are so wonderfully written that even if you know nothing about trading it's likely you're going to know both Gekko and the kid. I think what's so remarkable about the film is that it really does play out like a Hitchcock thriller because you just know the kid is eventually going to get in over his head and while watching the thing you can't help but feel you're walking on eggshells as he becomes richer and richer yet he's too stupid to see the price he's going to end up paying. Tom Cruise appears to have become a respectable actor out of this period but I think Sheen gets overlooked as he certainly had a strong resume at this point of his career. He certainly brings that hot shot attitude to the role but he also has a vulnerability that works extremely well especially towards the end when he starts to see what he has done. Douglas, in an Oscar-winning performance, is downright masterful as the snake Gekko and you can't help but on one hand hate this guy but at the same time you can't help but want to be him with the power and attitude. Martin Sheen often gets overlooked in the film but a lot of the connection one has with the movie comes from him. John C. McGinley, Hal Holbrook, James Karen, Terence Stamp, Sean Young, James Spader, Saul Rubinek and Daryl Hannah add to their characters and deliver the goods as well. I think Stone's direction is a major point to the film's success as he perfectly handles the bigger picture of the greed of Wall Street but also the smaller relationships in the film. Again, the film works perfectly as a thriller but there's also a lot of heart and soul in the film thanks to the relationship between the father and son.
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      • December 11, 1987 (United States)
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    • Filming locations
      • 60 W. 75th St, New York City, New York, USA
    • Production companies
      • Twentieth Century Fox
      • Amercent Films
      • American Entertainment Partners L.P.
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    • 2 hours 6 minutes
      • Color
      • Dolby Stereo

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