Wall Street
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"Wall Street" is a 1987 film directed by Oliver Stone that dramatizes the world of high-stakes stock trading and financial ambition in New York. The movie explores themes of greed, corruption, and ethics in the financial industry, making it culturally significant for how it portrays the competitive and morally complex nature of investment banking and the stock market.
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7.2A 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.
Released: 1987-12-10126 minDir: Oliver StoneCrime, Drama
Cast
- Michael Douglas as Gordon Gekko
- Charlie Sheen as Bud Fox
- Martin Sheen as Carl Fox
- Daryl Hannah as Darien Taylor
- John C. McGinley as Marvin
- Hal Holbrook as Lou Mannheim
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Wall Street is a 1987 American crime drama film directed and co-written by Oliver Stone, which stars Michael Douglas, Charlie Sheen, Daryl Hannah, and Martin Sheen. The film tells the story of Bud Fox (C. Sheen), a young stockbroker who becomes involved with Gordon Gekko (Douglas), a wealthy, unscrupulous corporate raider.
Stone made the film as a tribute to his father, Lou Stone, a stockbroker during the Great Depression. The character of Gekko is said to be a composite of several people, including Dennis Levine, Ivan Boesky, Carl Icahn, Asher Edelman, Michael Milken and Stone himself. The character of Sir Lawrence Wildman, meanwhile, was modelled on British financier and corporate raider Sir James Goldsmith. Originally, the studio wanted Warren Beatty to play Gekko, but he was not interested; Stone, meanwhile, wanted Richard Gere, but Gere passed on the role.