Michael Douglas received the 1987 Best Actor Academy Award for his powerful performance as Gordon Gekko a financial wizard who lures an ambitious young stock broker (Charlie Sheen) into the illegal lucrative world of corporate espionage in this gripping morality tale about the American dream gone wrong.
Michael Douglas received the 1987 Best Actor Academy Award for his powerful performance as Gordon Gekko a financial wizard who lures an ambitious young stock broker (Charlie Sheen) into the illegal lucrative world of corporate espionage in this gripping morality tale about the American dream gone wrong.
To watch this movie in Moscow in 1988 as a student was a liberating and exhilarating experience. Here is the capitalism close-up, warts and all. And we loved it. In three more years the Soviet communism will be dismantled, free market hurriedly introduced, and some of my friends and fellow students will proceed to become very rich people themselves. I did not know then, that Gordon Gekko, a villain who incidentally was much admired by me, was a thinly veiled portrait of Ivan B..
2 Disc Set - Insider Trading Edition, released September 7, 2010Wallstreet was made in 1987 by writer and director Oliver Stone and starring Michael Douglas, Charlie Sheen, Martin Sheen, Darryl Hannah, and John C. McGinley. A young stockbroker after months of persistence finally bags the big fish, Gordon Gekko, a man whose presence and lifestyle he idolizes. He shuns his blue collar background in pursuit of greed and impatiently engages in illegal insider trading.I first watch..
When Oliver Stone made Wall Street, he was riding high from the commercial and critical success of Platoon (Special Edition). His father, Lou Stone, had been a stockbroker on Wall Street in New York City and this film was a son's way of paying tribute to his father. Almost twenty years later, it has become one of the quintessential snapshots of the financial scene in the United States and epitomizes the essence of capitalism, greed and materialism that was so prevalent in the ..
