Wall Street
Rent & Buy
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.
What critics thought
Stone's morality tale about greed lands as a crowd-pleaser more than a critique, with critics split between admiring its propulsive energy and faulting its heavy-handed preachiness. Michael Douglas's Gordon Gekko was widely hailed, though the irony that the film inspired legions of real-world Gordon Gekkos — the very people it meant to condemn — has become its most debated legacy.
“the funniest, canniest performance of his career”
Vincent Canby·The New York Times
“This time he works up a salty sweat to end up nowhere, like a triathlete on a treadmill. But as long as he keeps his players in venal, perpetual motion, it is great scary fun to watch him work out”
Richard Corliss·Time
“Douglas's portrayal of Gordon Gekko is an oily triumph and as the kid Gekko thinks he has found in Fox ('Poor, smart and hungry; no feelings'), Charlie Sheen evolves persuasively from gung-ho capitalist child to wily adolescent corporate raider to morally appalled adult”
Jay Scott·The Globe and Mail
Accolades
Genres
Crime, Drama
Cast & Crew
Oliver StoneDirector
Michael DouglasGordon Gekko
Charlie SheenBud Fox
Martin SheenCarl Fox
Daryl HannahDarien Taylor
John C. McGinleyMarvin
Hal HolbrookLou Mannheim
Sean YoungKate Gekko
Terence StampSir Larry Wildman
James SpaderRoger Barnes
Lauren TomLady Broker
Chuck PfeifferChuckie
Tamara TunieCarolyn
Stewart CopelandComposer
Robert RichardsonCinematographyWall Street
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.
What critics thought
Stone's morality tale about greed lands as a crowd-pleaser more than a critique, with critics split between admiring its propulsive energy and faulting its heavy-handed preachiness. Michael Douglas's Gordon Gekko was widely hailed, though the irony that the film inspired legions of real-world Gordon Gekkos — the very people it meant to condemn — has become its most debated legacy.
“the funniest, canniest performance of his career”
Vincent Canby·The New York Times
“This time he works up a salty sweat to end up nowhere, like a triathlete on a treadmill. But as long as he keeps his players in venal, perpetual motion, it is great scary fun to watch him work out”
Richard Corliss·Time
“Douglas's portrayal of Gordon Gekko is an oily triumph and as the kid Gekko thinks he has found in Fox ('Poor, smart and hungry; no feelings'), Charlie Sheen evolves persuasively from gung-ho capitalist child to wily adolescent corporate raider to morally appalled adult”
Jay Scott·The Globe and Mail
Accolades
Genres
Crime, Drama
Cast & Crew
Oliver StoneDirectorMichael DouglasGordon GekkoCharlie SheenBud FoxMartin SheenCarl FoxDaryl HannahDarien TaylorJohn C. McGinleyMarvinHal HolbrookLou MannheimSean YoungKate GekkoTerence StampSir Larry WildmanJames SpaderRoger BarnesLauren TomLady BrokerChuck PfeifferChuckieTamara TunieCarolynStewart CopelandComposerRobert RichardsonCinematographyRent & Buy