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  • Actors: Charlie Sheen, Michael Douglas, Tamara Tunie, Franklin Cover, Chuck Pfeiffer
  • Directors: Oliver Stone
  • Writers: Oliver Stone, Stanley Weiser
  • Producers: A. Kitman Ho, Edward R. Pressman, Michael Flynn
  • Format: Anamorphic, PAL, Widescreen
  • Language English
  • Subtitles: Czech, Danish, Finnish, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Swedish
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 15
  • Studio: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
  • DVD Release Date: 20 Aug 2001
  • Run Time: 120 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B0000560Y4
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 2,418 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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In Wall Street Michael Douglas perfectly embodies the Reagan-era credo that "greed is good" and won an Oscar for his efforts. As a Donald Trump-like Wall Street raider aptly named Gordon Gecko (for his reptilian ability to attack corporate targets and swallow them whole), Douglas found a role tailor-made to his skill in portraying heartless men who've sacrificed humanity to power. He's a slick, seductive role model for the young ambitious Wall Street broker played by Charlie Sheen, who falls into Gecko's sphere of influence and instantly succumbs to the allure of risky deals and generous payoffs. With such perks as a high-rise apartment and women who love men for their money, Charlie's like a worm on Gecko's hook, blind to the corporate manoeuvring that puts him at odds with his own father (played by Sheen's off-screen father, Martin). With his usual lack of subtlety, writer-director Oliver Stone drew from the brokering experience of his own father to tell this Faustian tale for the "me" decade but the film's sledgehammer style is undeniably effective. A cautionary warning that Stone delivers on highly entertaining terms, Wall Street grabs your attention while questioning the corrupted values of a system that worships profit at the cost of one's soul. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com


Special Features

1.85 Wide Screen
16:9 Anamorphic Wide Screen
DVD 9
English
English
Region 2
Dolby Digital 5.1 English
Dolby Digital 5.1
Documentary
Oliver Stone Audio Commentary
2 International Theatrical Trailers
Scene Access
Czech\Danish\Finnish\Hebrew\Hungarian\Icelandic\Norwegian\Polish\Portuguese\Swedish
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17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Greed is good?, 30 Jan 2008
By H. Serkan SILAHSOR (Ankara, TURKEY) - See all my reviews
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A good morality play, as well as a great look into greed-addiction and monkey business in the stock trading, accurately portraying the barbarous, amoral and hedonic capitalism of the 1980s, which is nothing but a religion. It captures well the essence of the "new evolutionary spirit", characterized by dog-eat-dog and get-rich-quick schemes in the bull market era.

The film represents a complex study of human greediness, especially taking a dismal look at pursuit of self-interest at whatever cost. Everyone in the film is either honestly abhorrent or has numerous ulterior motives hidden behind their masks. No clear-cut protagonists but two main characters, Gordon Gekko & Bud Fox, are well-drawn and well-acted, except that Daryl Hannah is terribly miscast.

A special note must be made about Michael Douglas who plays Gordon Gekko, a cut-throat corporate trader, is such a hotshot that Douglas was born to play: powerful, wealthy, greedy as well as cocky and haughty. He is unbelievably compelling as an "Ivan Boesky" type character who wreaks havoc with the markets and gains control over the future of thousands of workers. His diatribes about "greed is good" and "wealth is a zero-sum game" myths are quite interesting. He definitely deserves his Oscar. Highly recommended.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars 'Alright Mr Gekko, you got me'., 26 Feb 2007
By Mr. A. E. Hall "brother_of_sadako" (Liverpool, UK) - See all my reviews
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The definitive sales movie. Before Glengarry Glen Ross and Boiler Room, there was Wall Street. Set in that behemoth of the New York Stock Exchange and the trading floors down town and providing it is a grim look at the society that inhabit them.

Telling the tale of Budd Fox (Charlie Sheen), a young upstart, heavily in debt with stars in his eyes, the story starts off smoothly. Desperate to get in with the big hitters, he soon finds himself getting into highly dodgey business with Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas).

Charlie Sheen turns in the finest performance of his career and really brings out the pathos in the naive and young Budd Fox, trapped in the dark business that is sales. Before he knows it, he has become exactly what he set out to be, with all the baggage attatched. Douglas is also fantastic as the inspirational and ultimately repulsive Gekko, and the list of lackies and struggling salesmen as the scum and losers of this morality tale deliver with panache. How far would you go? How much is too much?

Oliver Stone has earned his reputation as a controversial film maker; from the violence of war in Platoon to spurious conspiracy claims in JFK, and Wall Street is no exception. Some call it anti capitalist or plain Marxist, I don't. For me, I look at the ending and see the consequences of dishonesty. Stone brings about a negative twist to the world which I have seen with my own eyes. No one ever said it was perfect, and those who say it is all bad are just plain wrong. And no film ever showed that better than Wall Street.
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6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars A Marxist-tinged look at Wall Street, 10 Dec 2005
By David Pritchard (Madrid, Spain) - See all my reviews
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On an individual and social level, Oliver Stone's work is an undeniably effective portrayal of the money business on Wall Street, and the performances are mostly top-notch. If you can live with the terribly dated 80s music, it's a great film for that.

However, the film's wider message is populist but economically illiterate: that only people who make things (like aeroplanes) create real value, that protecting uneconomic jobs in malfuncioning companies is heroic, that extracting the maximum value from assets is evil, and that the economy is essentially a zero-sum game, where some win at the expense of others losing.

The effective part of Stone's critique is that which focuses on Wall Street's short-termism, the corruption of insider trading, and the immediate human cost of extracting maximum value from a business on which families depend for their livelihoods.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Very sharp and insightful
A very sharply written and well acted movie having a real go at the excessive practices of some financial market traders in the boomtime 1980s, which as we know now, despite... Read more
Published 10 months ago by Lou Knee

5.0 out of 5 stars Back when Oliver Stone was making great movies
The eighties was a dreadful decade for movies. Top Gun, Rambo and Rocky were sapping the cinema-goers IQ/ brain cells. Read more
Published 11 months ago by Brendan O. Clarke

3.0 out of 5 stars Buy the DVD
Fantastic film as we all know, but the quality is not worth paying for a Bluey. Get the DVD at a fraction of the cost, it's just as good.
Published 12 months ago by Trying to look busy at work

5.0 out of 5 stars one of the movies that defined the financial era of the 80's
This is a 1980's classic to say the least. And for me at least one of the movies that defined the financial era of that decade. Read more
Published on 29 Jun 2007 by Jay

5.0 out of 5 stars Be nostalgic and look at the twin towers
The film avoids as much as possible the sentimental side of things and concentrates on the financial depth of the business. Read more
Published on 4 Jun 2007 by Jacques COULARDEAU

5.0 out of 5 stars lunch is for wimps and wimps are for lunch!
This sums up the attitude of the stockbrokers you'll see in the course of the movie.Before the film was made director Oliver Stone told Charlie Sheen (I'll put this politley)to... Read more
Published on 4 Jun 2006 by dan the fan

5.0 out of 5 stars Greed is good
This film epitomises the greed is good culture. Michael Douglas deservedly won a Oscar for his performance as Gordon Gecko, who will stop at nothing to earn a quick buck. Read more
Published on 28 Dec 2003 by rspel

5.0 out of 5 stars It's a Classic..
This is a classic movie about not taking the easy way out and working hard to make it in life. Bud Fox (played by Charlie Sheen) finds that out the hard way when he teams up with... Read more
Published on 23 Sep 2003 by Chad Castorina

5.0 out of 5 stars 80s Classic
Ok - some people may be a bit scared of this film, since it is about high finance and was directed by Oliver Stone, one of the most controversial American directors to date... Read more
Published on 21 May 2003

4.0 out of 5 stars Jack Lemmon in place of Martin Sheen?
WALL STREET is a very entertaining film about corruption in the world of high finance during the 1980's. Read more
Published on 24 Mar 2003 by Peter Kenney

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