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Mood:
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- Hotshot HeroAmbitionWorkplacePower RelationsBuddiesBetrayalMoral DilemmaBoss and Employee more...
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- Drama
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- 20th Century80s
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- New YorkUSAUrban
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- Award WinnerCritically AcclaimedOscar WinnerModern ClassicPrestigious Awards
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Wall Street, 1987
English
USA
Profile of Wall Street
The mood of Wall Street is biting, captivating, and clever. The plot centers around a hotshot hero, a workplace, and power relations. It is a drama movie. Stylistically, Wall Street involves twists and turns. In approach, it is serious and realistic. It takes place, at least partly, in an urban environment. Wall Street is set in New York. It happens in the 1980s. The movie is known for being a modern classic, an Oscar winner, and critically acclaimed. Note that Wall Street includes mild violent content, nudity, and profanity.
Summary of Wall Street
Oliver Stone opened fire on the greed decade of the 1980s with this morality tale set on Wall Street. It stars Charlie Sheen as Bud Fox, an ambitious rookie stockbroker from a blue-collar background who is mesmerized by Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas), a Mephistophelean superbroker who specializes in corporate takeovers. Despite his initial resistance to Bud's entreaties, Gekko finally takes on the eager beaver as his protégé, schooling him in the kind of slash-and-burn maneuvers that have taken Gekko to the top. This style is far more attractive to Fox than the more prosaic but principled approach to investing preached by veteran Lou Mannheim (Hal Holbrook). And, at first, it's impossible to dispute his preference; as Bud's life moves into the fast lane, he quickly acquires an upscale apartment and a girlfriend to match, interior designer Darien (Darryl Hannah). But when Gekko demands that Bud not only break the law but directly undermine his union-leader father, Carl (Martin Sheen), and jeopardize the jobs and lives of his friends and family, he realizes that the cost of success might be more than he's willing to pay. Wall Street is a riveting, testosterone-fueled tour of the Street's upper echelons, featuring standout performances by Michael Douglas and Martin Sheen.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | USA |
| Release date: | 11 December 1987 |
| Runtime: | 126 min |
| Awards: | Academy Awards |
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