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The Bonfire of the Vanities

1990

Brian De Palma

Tom Hanks, Melanie Griffith, Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman ...

5.4

7,635

Drama Tom Wolfe’s modern American satire tells the story of Sherman McCoy, a Wall Street “Master of the Universe” who has it all — a Park Avenue apartment, a job that brings wealth, power and prestige, a beautiful wife, an even more beautiful mistress. Suddenly, one wrong turn makes it all go wrong, and Sherman spirals downward in a sudden fall from grace that sucks him into the ravenous heart of a New York City gone mad during the go-go, ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"The author wisely had nothing to do with this bonfire of inanities. Neither should audience"	NEG
United States	Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly	"One of the most indecently bad movies of the year"	NEG
United States	Vincent Canby The New York Times	"The novel transcends its own cynicism to become healthily skeptical. This is just what Brian De Palma's gross, unfunny movie adaptation does not do"	NEG
United States	Rita Kempley The Washington Post	"A calamity of miscasting and commercial concessions"	NEG

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