Wall Street (1987)
86%RT Audience Score: 81%
Awards & Nominations: Nominated for 5 Oscars
37 wins & 179 nominations total
With Wall Street, Oliver Stone delivers a blunt but effective — and thoroughly well-acted — jeremiad against its era’s veneration of greed as a means to its own end
Wall Street is the perfect movie for anyone who loves a good story about greed and corruption. Michael Douglas steals the show as the slimy Gordon Gekko, while Charlie Sheen’s performance as the naive Bud Fox is the heart of the film. Sure, it may be a bit wordy and self-righteous at times, but who cares when you’re watching a movie that’s as entertaining as this one? Plus, it’s always fun to hate on the rich guys, right? So grab some popcorn and settle in for a wild ride through the world of high finance.
Production Company(ies)
K T F Films,
Distributor
20th Century Fox, Warner Home Vídeo
Release Type
Theatrical
Filming Location(s)
Portofino, Genoa, Liguria, Italy
MPAA / Certificate
Rated R for sequences of strong sexual content, graphic nudity, drug use and language throughout, and for some violence
Year of Release
2013
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Color:Color
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Sound mix:Datasat Dolby Digital Dolby Surround 7.1
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Aspect ratio:2.39 : 1
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Runtime:2h 5m
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Language(s):English, French
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Country of origin:United States
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Release date:Release Date (Theaters): Dec 11, 1987 Original
Release Date (Streaming): Feb 19, 2002
Genre(s)
Drama
Keyword(s)
Wall Street, R, Drama, 2h 5m, starring Michael Douglas, Charlie Sheen, Martin Sheen, Terence Stamp, Sean Young, Daryl Hannah, directed by Oliver Stone, written by Stanley Weiser, Oliver Stone, produced by Edward R Pressman, box office gross $41.3M, reviewed by Sean French, David Denby, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Variety Staff, Fernando F Croce, Geoff Andrew, Rene Jordan, Mike Massie, Leigh Paatsch, Ángel Fernández-Santos, Hilary Mantel, MPAA rating R, stockbroker, corporate raider, insider trading, greed, ambition, power, corruption, morality, ethics, finance, capitalism, New York, 1980s, Wall Street, unsparing, blunt, effective, well-acted, jeremiad, veneration, critic reviews, audience score, drama, English, 20th Century Fox, Warner Home Vídeo, surround sound mix
Worldwide gross: $392,000,694
Worldwide gross (inflation-adjusted): $497,977,310
Worldwide gross ranking (inflation-adjusted): 288
Worldwide tickets sold (est.): 54,305,050
US/Canada gross: $116,900,694
US/Canada gross (inflation-adjusted): $148,504,567
US/Canada gross ranking (inflation-adjusted): 521
US/Canada opening weekend: $18,361,578
US/Canada opening weekend (inflation-adjusted): $23,325,594
US/Canada opening weekend ranking (inflation-adjusted): 576
Budget and Earnings Details
Production budget (est.): $100,000,000
Production budget (inflation-adjusted): $127,034,803
Production budget ranking: 286
Marketing and distribution budget (inflation-adjusted est.): $68,408,242
Box office net earnings to date (inflation-adjusted est.): $302,534,265
ROI to date (est.): 155%
ROI ranking: 754
Charlie Sheen – Bud Fox
Martin Sheen – Carl Fox
Terence Stamp – Sir Larry Wildman
Sean Young – Kate Gekko
Daryl Hannah – Darien Taylor
Director(s)
Oliver Stone
Writer(s)
Stanley Weiser, Oliver Stone
Producer(s)
Edward R. Pressman
Film Festivals
Awards & Nominations
Nominated for 5 Oscars
37 wins & 179 nominations total
Academy Awards
Oscar Winners
All Critics (57) | Top Critics (12) | Fresh (44) | Rotten (13)
The film benefits enormously from shrewd casting.
January 28, 2020
Sean French
Sight & Sound
TOP CRITIC
Oliver Stone’s Wall Street is exactly what I had hoped for — a sensationally entertaining melodrama about greed and corruption in New York, a movie that evokes the power of big money so strongly that you can savor it on your tongue like Stilton and port.
December 31, 2019
David Denby
New York Magazine/Vulture
TOP CRITIC
The sensibility of this movie is so adolescent that it’s hard to take it as seriously as the filmmakers intend us to.
September 18, 2007
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Chicago Reader
TOP CRITIC
Watching Oliver Stone’s Wall Street is about as wordy and dreary as reading the financial papers accounts of the rise and fall of an Ivan Boesky-type arbitrageur.
September 18, 2007
Variety Staff
Variety
TOP CRITIC
Stone’s attack on the excesses of the Me Decade could easily be dubbed Mr. Smith Goes to Wall Street.
September 15, 2007 | Rating: 2/4
Fernando F. Croce
Slant Magazine
TOP CRITIC
Dramatically inept, the film also muddles its nave moralising.
January 26, 2006
Geoff Andrew
Time Out
TOP CRITIC
The film is an atrocious, self-righteous coven, but the public adores it with malignant complacency. [Full review in Spanish]
July 6, 2022
Rene Jordan
El Nuevo Herald (Miami)
Douglas steals the show as the rich guy viewers love to hate.
September 8, 2020 | Rating: 6/10
Mike Massie
Gone With The Twins
Much is made of Douglas’ superbly sleazy display here, but the heart of the film is Charlie Sheen’s anchoring effort as the stock market ingenue getting a crash course in cornering other people’s cash.
June 2, 2020 | Rating: 4/5
Leigh Paatsch
Herald Sun (Australia)
A lavish misstep in the straight career of this filmmaker. [Full Review in Spanish]
April 10, 2020
Ángel Fernández-Santos
El Pais (Spain)
Michael Douglas has a splendid part here, and tackles it with relish.
August 30, 2018
Hilary Mantel
The Spectator
The conflict may be familiar, but Stone brings the mystery of Wall Street’s heros and villains, its big-stakes players and two-bit salesmen into sharp focus. It’s a look that is both exhilarating and astounding.
October 11, 2016
Cathy Burke
United Press International…
Plot
In the early 1990s, Jordan Belfort teamed with his partner Donny Azoff and started brokerage firm Stratton Oakmont. Their company quickly grows from a staff of 20 to a staff of more than 250 and their status in the trading community and Wall Street grows exponentially. So much that companies file their initial public offerings through them. As their status grows, so do the amount of substances they abuse, and so do their lies. They draw attention like no other, throwing lavish parties for their staff when they hit the jackpot on high trades. That ultimately leads to Belfort featured on the cover of Forbes Magazine, being called “The Wolf Of Wall St.”. With the FBI onto Belfort’s trading schemes, he devises new ways to cover his tracks and watch his fortune grow. Belfort ultimately comes up with a scheme to stash their cash in a European bank. But with the FBI watching him like a hawk, how long will Belfort and Azoff be able to maintain their elaborate wealth and luxurious lifestyles?
Trivia
Goofs / Tidbits
Michael Douglas delivers a “superbly sleazy” performance as Gordon Gekko.
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