Wall Street (1987)

Succeeded by: Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010)

	Directed by: Oliver Stone	COUNTRY USA GENRE Drama/Crime NORWEGIAN TITLE Wall Street RUNNING TIME 126 minutes
	Produced by: Edward R. Pressman
	Written by: Oliver Stone Stanley Weiser

Cast includes:
CHARACTER	ACTOR/ACTRESS	RATING
Gordon Gekko	Michael Douglas	½
Bud Fox	Charlie Sheen
Darien Taylor	Daryl Hannah
Carl Fox	Martin Sheen
Marvin	John C. McGinley	½
Sir Larry Wildman	Terence Stamp	-
Harry Lynch	James Karen	-
Lou Mannheim	Hal Holbrook
Kate Gekko	Sean Young	-
Roger Barnes	James Spader
Harold Salt	Saul Rubinek	-
Dominick	John Capodice	-
Stone Livingstone	Paul Guilfoyle	-

Review

A fresh-faced Charlie Sheen is a fledgling stockbroker in New York City desperate to get involved with the super-successful Wall Street investor Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas). This morality tale isn’t as clear-cut and simple as you might think based on its commercial success and year of release. Director and co-writer Oliver Stone, himself the son of a Depression Era stockbroker, demonstrates a savvy ability to make entertainment out of a predilection for numbers, villains and tacky interior design. And save for a few cheap points towards the end and a terribly stilted Daryl Hannah as the love interest, this is a rather delightful journey into 1980s extravaganza elevated by a brilliant performance from Douglas.