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The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990) | User Rating
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Release Date
• USA: Dec 21, 1990
DVD Release Date
• R1: Nov 23, 1999
• R2: 24 Jan 2000
Budget $47,000,000
MPAA Rating
R
Running Time
2 hours, 5 minutes
Country USA
Studio Warner Brothers
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Other Titles
• The Bonfire of the Vanities
• Fegefeuer der Eitelkeiten (1991)
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Genre: Drama, Comedy, Law, Courtroom, Satire, Black Comedy, Political, Gay/Lesbian, Society, Infidelity, Revenge, Blackmail
Tagline: An Outrageous Story of Greed, Lust and Vanity in America
Plot: Brian De Palma (SCARFACE) directed this lavish adaptation of Tom Wolfe's best-selling satirical novel, featuring Tom Hanks, Melanie Griffith, and Bruce Willis. Hanks stars as Sherman McCoy, a distinctly 1980s brand of wealthy Wall Street wizard who takes a mighty fall from his glitzy lifestyle after he and his mistress (Griffith) put a Bronx youth into a coma via a hit-and-run accident. Alcoholic reporter Peter Fallow (Willis) sees the crime as an opportunity for big headlines, and soon Sherman is the target of every political and media group in the city, including an Al Sharpton-style black leader named Rev. Bacon (John Hancock) and a sleazy D.A. (F. Murray Abraham). SEX IN THE CITY babe Kim Catrall costars as Sherman's long-suffering wife, and Morgan Freeman is the judge who tries to reign in this three-ring media circus of a case. Like the decade it parodies, this film is proudly over the top in its lavishness. It's also filled to overflowing with inspired casting, wildly inventive comedy, and the sort of artistically ambitious tracking shots for which its director is renowned.
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| Written by |
Tom Wolfe
The Right Stuff, The Last American Hero, I Am Charlotte Simmons | |
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| Cast |
Tom Hanks
Saving Private Ryan, Forrest Gump, The Green Mile |
 | Bruce Willis
Pulp Fiction, The Sixth Sense, The Fifth Element |
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 | Kim Cattrall
15 Minutes, Big Trouble in Little China, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country |
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 | Kevin Dunn
Godzilla, I Heart Huckabees, Snake Eyes |
 | Kurt Fuller
Anger Management, Wayne's World, Ghostbusters II |
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