Synopsis
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 whom takes the youth under his wing.
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Cast
- Charlie SheenBud Fox
- Michael DouglasGordon Gekko
- Martin SheenCarl Fox
- Daryl HannahDarien Taylor
- John C. McGinleyMarvin
- Hal HolbrookLou Mannheim
- Sean YoungKate Gekko
- Terence StampSir Larry Wildman
- James SpaderRoger Barnes
- Chuck PfeifferChuckie
Recommendations
- 88
Chicago Sun-Times
Stone's most impressive achievement in this film is to allow all the financial wheeling and dealing to seem complicated and convincing, and yet always have it make sense. - 80
Empire
As with Platoon, Stone captures the horrific essence of an environment and transfers it to us without the need for prior knowledge. Dazzling filmmaking. - 75
TV Guide Magazine
Stone intentionally set out to make a good old-fashioned liberal drama about the evils of unchecked capitalism. This approach results in a film with few shades of gray and lots of moralizing speeches, but Stone nearly pulls it off through his usual visual verve and keen casting instincts. - 75
Chicago Tribune
The world of Wall Street is that of a lush soap opera-"Dynasty" with a moral. It gets the barn burning, all right, but it has no impact. [11 Dec 1987, p.A] - 70
The New York Times
Wall Street isn't a movie to make one think. It simply confirms what we all know we should think, while giving us a tantalizing, Sidney Sheldon-like peek into the boardrooms and bedrooms of the rich and powerful. - 63
Boston Globe
Oliver Stone's Wall Street plays like "Platoon" in civvies. It's a good bad movie, unable to muster the moral firepower of the earlier film, but entertaining on the level of a big, bold, biff-bam-pow comic strip that likes high-profile high-rolling more than it perhaps realizes. [11 Dec 1987, p.45] - 60
Washington Post
The film is best when Gekko and Fox power it up, but Wall Street falls into the red when Stone's heavy-handed moralizing takes over. - 40
Chicago Reader
The sensibility of this movie is so adolescent that it's hard to take it as seriously as the filmmakers intend us to.
