Wall Street
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 who takes the youth under his wing.
23 September 1958, Lakeland, Florida, USA
28 November 1923, Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania, USA
18 March 1952, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK
29 November 1933, Grand Forks, North Dakota, USA
12 September 1958, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
25 September 1944, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
May 5, 1955 in New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
November 08, 2010
...an eye-opening behind-the-scenes glimpse at an almost alien landscape.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.January 26, 2006
Dramatically inept, the film also muddles its naïve moralising.October 23, 2008
...blustery and unsophisticated, like many of the movies of Oliver Stone.January 01, 2000
With its posturing politics and cardboard characterizations, Wall Street is not up to [Oliver Stone's] past standards.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.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.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picture that, at the time of shooting, was intended to be relatively hip and cutting-edge, it is now so laughably outdated it almost feels like science-fiction.September 18, 2007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.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.