Wall Street

1987
15
2h 6m

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7.3/10

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Workplace Drama Crime Drama Financial Drama

An impatient young stockbroker is willing to do anything to get to the top, including trading on illegal inside information taken through a ruthless, greedy corporate raider who takes the yo... Read allAn impatient young stockbroker is willing to do anything to get to the top, including trading on illegal inside information taken through a ruthless, greedy corporate raider who takes the youth under his wing.An impatient young stockbroker is willing to do anything to get to the top, including trading on illegal inside information taken through a ruthless, greedy corporate raider who takes the youth under his wing.

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IMDb RATING

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169K

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Won 1 Oscar
- 9 wins & 4 nominations total

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Trivia
The first feature film to show a character using a mobile cellular telephone.

Goofs
At the beginning of the movie, Bud Fox and Marvin say Gordon Gekko was shorting NASA stock right after the Challenger explosion. The scene is set in 1985, but the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded January 28, 1986.

Quotes
Gordon Gekko: The richest one percent of this country owns half our country's wealth, five trillion dollars. One third of that comes from hard work, two thirds comes from inheritance, interest on interest accumulating to widows and idiot sons and what I do, stock and real estate speculation. It's bullshit. You got ninety percent of the American public out there with little or no net worth. I create nothing. I own. We make the rules, pal. The news, war, peace, famine, upheaval, the price per paper clip. We pick that rabbit out of the hat while everybody sits out there wondering how the hell we did it. Now you're not naive enough to think we're living in a democracy, are you buddy? It's the free market. And you're a part of it. You've got that killer instinct. Stick around pal, I've still got a lot to teach you.

Crazy credits
Building illustrations are shown during entire end credits

Alternate versions
In the VHS release, instead of the correct 1981-1994 20th Century Fox logo, the 1953-1981 logo is used.

Connections
Featured in Siskel & Ebert & the Movies: The Duxorcist/Walker/Manon of the Spring/The Dead (1987)

Soundtracks
Fly Me to the Moon
Words and Music by Bart Howard (ASCAP)
Published by The Hampshire House Publishing Corp. (ASCAP)
Performed by Frank Sinatra
Courtesy of Reprise Records
By Arrangement with Warner Special Products
Arrangement by Quincy Jones (uncredited)

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Hard Hitting and Inspirational

I totally adoire this movie, fabulous gritty no holds barred performance from the brilliant Mr Douglas, proving that sex is by no means the overwhelming theme of his movies as some seem to imagine.

I love the anxious, terrifyingly rapid advance given to the young Bud Fox from a chance comment in Gekkos daunting office, the instant changes of mood by Micheal swinging from interviewing to lambasting an industry peer on the phone and back to interviewing without a flicker.

Inspirational in the 'no fear' modus operandi of Gordon and then Bud, almost 'you can do anything if you dare' which has always given me a lift when I watch it.

Lush settings, and marvellous counterpointing performance of Terence Stamp, illustrating the 'Gekko' figure scenario in turn to Gordon nas Gordon had to Bud...

Await all Michaels movies with bated breath...Falling down....wonderful...but thats another story