The Bonfire of the Vanities
IMDB Rating: 5.10, 7638 votes
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Taglines
- An Outrageous Story of Greed, Lust and Vanity in America
- Take one Wall Street tycoon, his Fifth Avenue mistress, a reporter hungry for fame, and make the wrong turn in The Bronx...then sit back and watch the sparks fly.
Storyline
Financial "Master of the Universe" Sherman McCoy sees his life unravel when his mistress Maria Ruskin hits a black boy with his car. When yellow journalist Peter Fallow enflames public opinion with a series of distorted tabloid articles on the accident, the case is seized upon by opportunists like Reverend Bacon and mayoral candidate D.A. Abe Weiss.
Actors
| Sherman McCoy | Tom Hanks |
| Peter Fallow | Bruce Willis |
| Jed Kramer | Saul Rubinek |
| Judge Leonard White | Morgan Freeman |
| Reverend Bacon | John Hancock |
| Tom Killian | Kevin Dunn |
| Albert Fox | Clifton James |
| Ray Andruitti | Louis Giambalvo |
| Detective Martin | Barton Heyman |
| Detective Goldberg | Norman Parker |
| Mr. McCoy | Donald Moffat |
| Arthur Ruskin | Alan King |
| Pollard Browning | Kurt Fuller |
| Rawlie Thorpe | Adam LeFevre |
| Ed Rifkin | Richard Libertini |
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Posted in: 1990, Comedy, Drama
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