Wall Street
On the Wall Street of the 1980s, Bud Fox is a stockbroker full of ambition, doing whatever he can to make his way to the top. Admiring the power of the unsparing corporate raider Gordon Gekko, Fox entices Gekko into mentoring him by providing insider trading.
13 November 1948, New York City, New York, USA
25 September 1944, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
1 May 1958, Los Angeles, California, USA
29 December 1984, New York City, New York, USA
23 September 1958, Lakeland, Florida, USA
6 July 1954, Rochester, New York, USA
14 March 1959, McKeesport, Pennsylvania, USA
29 November 1933, Grand Forks, North Dakota, USA
23 March 1927, Brussels, Belgium
9 September 1932, New York City, New York, USA
17 February 1925, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
18 March 1952, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK
13 January 1919, Holland, New York, USA
24 March 1932, New York City, New York, USA
21 December 1946, New York City, New York, USA
16 November 1935
September 20, 2010
Like the rest of Stone's oeuvre, it's about as subtle as a sledgehammer. But his filmmaking style is like heavy metal: When he hits the right chords, nobody plays with as much power or brash energy.
September 18, 2007
Watching Oliver Stone's Wall Street is about as wordy and dreary as reading the financial papers accounts of the rise and fall of an Ivan Boesky-type arbitrageur.
January 01, 2000
In Wall Street...you will see the evil, capitalistic impulses of man. Towards the end, you will see the self-righteous impulses of liberal finger-waggers. It's hard to tell which is worse.
April 16, 2010
Some of the 1980s-era details may seem a bit dated, and the movie's attitude toward women is slightly despicable, but the overall story arc, echoing the "Faust" tale, is timeless.
November 08, 2010
...an eye-opening behind-the-scenes glimpse at an almost alien landscape.
September 18, 2007
The sensibility of this movie is so adolescent that it's hard to take it as seriously as the filmmakers intend us to.
January 26, 2006
Dramatically inept, the film also muddles its naïve moralising.
September 23, 2010
For a motion picture that, at the time of shooting, was intended to be relatively hip and cutting-edge, it is now so laughably outdated it almost feels like science-fiction.
January 01, 2000
With its posturing politics and cardboard characterizations, Wall Street is not up to [Oliver Stone's] past standards.
October 23, 2008
...blustery and unsophisticated, like many of the movies of Oliver Stone.
May 20, 2003
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.
