Rating: R
Genre:
Comedy
Theatrical Release: 12/19/1990(USA)
Release Date: 11/23/1999
SubTitles: English/French
Dubbed: English/French
Sound: 2
Run Time: 126 Minutes
Flags: Violence, Nudity, Strong Sexual Content, Not For Children, Profanity
Distributor/Studio: Warner Home Video
Brian De Palma's Hollywood sanitization of
Tom Wolfe's scabrous satire stars
Tom Hanks as Sherman McCoy, the "master of the universe," a shallow Wall Street investor who makes millions while enjoying the good life and the sexual favors of Maria Ruskin (
Melanie Griffith), a Southern belle golddigger. Sherman and Maria are driving back to Maria's apartment from the airport when Maria takes a wrong turn on the expressway and the two find themselves in the South Bronx. She sees a black youth approaching Sherman's car and Maria, frightened, guns the engine, running over the teenager and killing him. The two drive away and decide not to report the accident to the police. Meanwhile, indigent alcoholic journalist Peter Fallow (
Bruce Willis), anxious for a story to make good with his editor, comes upon the hit-and-run tale through local black community activist, Reverend Bacon (
John Hancock). Bacon plans to use the hit-and-run case as a rallying point for the black community, while Fallow recognizes the press coverage inherent in prosecuting the callow Sherman. As Sherman is brought to his knees, the New York community fragments into different factions who use the case to suit their own cynical political purposes. Finally, Sherman is left without any allies to support him except for the sympathetic Judge White (
Morgan Freeman) and the remorseful Fallow.
~ Paul Brenner, All Movie Guide
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A Wall Street Financial Bomb.
Brian De Palma, who directed such films as Carrie, The Fury, Dressed to Kill, Scarface, The Untouchables and The Casualties of War comes to rue the day, he directed this appalling asinine satire from Tom Wolfe's novel. Academy Award winner, Tom Hanks stars as a cocky Wall Street wheeler-dealer, whose well-insulated life begins to crumble when his wife (Kim Cattrall) learns he's having an affair with a beautiful socalite (Melanie Griffith), and he and his paramour (Bruce Willis) are involved in a hit-and-run accident. A complete waste of the talents of the cast and the writers and the director. Also starring Morgan Freeman, Saul Rubinek, Alan King, Kevin Dunn, Camryn Manheim, F. Murray Abraham, Donald Moffat, Louis Giambalvo, Rita Wilson, Clifton James, Richard Belzer, Kirsten Dunst, Andre Gregory, John Hancock, Richard Libertini and Mary Alice.
