The Bonfire of the Vanities R
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.
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 2 hours, 6 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: August 10, 2010
- Originally Released: 1990
- Label: Warner Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Tom Hanks, Melanie Griffith & Bruce Willis | |
Performer: | Morgan Freeman, Saul Rubinek, Kim Cattrall, Kevin Dunn, Clifton James, John Hancock, Donald Moffat, Beth Broderick, Kurt Fuller, Mary Alice, Adam LeFevre, Richard Libertini, Kirsten Dunst, Alan King, Emmanuel Xuereb, Barton Heyman, F. Murray Abraham, Louis Giambalvo & Marjorie Monaghan | |
Directed by | Brian De Palma | |
Edited by | Bill Pankow & David Ray | |
Screenplay by | Michael Cristofer | |
Composition by | Dave Grusin | |
Story by | Tom Wolfe | |
Produced by | Brian De Palma | |
Director of Photography: | Vilmos Zsigmond | |
Executive Production by | Jon Peters & Peter Guber |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3/5 --
If you're interested in a faithful visual adaptation of Wolfe's novel, be assured that this isn't it.
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Orlando Sentinel
In this heavy-handed and uneven treatment, De Palma drains Tom Wolfe's original story of its humour, and must shoulder the blame for its failure.
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Film4
Rating: 2.5/4 --
If you loved Wolfe's book, you may very well hate the movie. If you simply liked the novel, you may be simultaneously entertained and disappointed by what De Palma and Cristofer have done to it.
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Seattle Times
Rating: 1.5/4 --
It's ultimately not difficult to see why The Bonfire of the Vanities was (and still is) regarded as an epic big-budget bomb...
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Reel Film Reviews
Rating: 1.5/4 --
Reduced to pure plot, the narrative is not so much a sendup of 1980s hypocrisy as an orgy of banal, juvenile mean-spiritedness. The irony of Wolfe's book becomes shrill, screaming sarcasm, unpleasant, and, worse, unfunny.
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TV Guide
Brian DePalma`s The Bonfire of the Vanities is a perfect example of how a best-selling book can be carefully altered, perceptively pruned and converted into an intriguing motion picture.
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South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Brian DePalma lapses into idle, slapsticky digressions. You don't get angry at what he's attacking, or defensive; you just get weary.
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People Magazine
Product Description:
Brian De Palma (SCARFACE) directed this lavish adaptation of Tom Wolfe's best-selling satirical novel, featuring Tom Hanks, Melanie Griffith, and Bruce Willis. Hanks stars as Sherman McCoy, a distinctly 1980s brand of wealthy Wall Street wizard who takes a mighty fall from his glitzy lifestyle after he and his mistress (Griffith) put a Bronx youth into a coma via a hit-and-run accident. Alcoholic reporter Peter Fallow (Willis) sees the crime as an opportunity for big headlines, and soon Sherman is the target of every political and media group in the city, including an Al Sharpton-style black leader named Rev. Bacon (John Hancock) and a sleazy D.A. (F. Murray Abraham). SEX IN THE CITY babe Kim Catrall costars as Sherman's long-suffering wife, and Morgan Freeman is the judge who tries to reign in this three-ring media circus of a case. Like the decade it parodies, this film is proudly over the top in its lavishness. It's also filled to overflowing with inspired casting, wildly inventive comedy, and the sort of artistically ambitious tracking shots for which its director is renowned.
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