The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990)

Directed by

Brian De Palma

Genre

drama film, comedy film

Country

United States

Runtime

2h 06m

Rated

R

Rating

5.6 of 10 from 542 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A rich bond trader and his mistress get into a hit-and-run accident in the Bronx. The cover-up and media frenzy that follow expose greed and hypocrisy among New York's elite.

satiricalcynicalfast-paceddarkly comicover-the-toptenseabsurdsharp

What happens

The Bonfire of the Vanities is a 1990 American satirical black comedy film directed and produced by Brian De Palma, and starring Tom Hanks, Bruce Willis, Melanie Griffith, Kim Cattrall and Morgan Freeman. The screenplay, written by Michael Cristofer, was adapted from the bestselling 1987 novel of the same name by Tom Wolfe. The film was panned by critics and underperformed at the box office, grossing just $15.6 million against its $47 million budget. The controversies surrounding the film were detailed in the 1991 book The Devil's Candy: The Bonfire of the Vanities Goes to Hollywood, by Julie Salamon. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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