The Bonfire of the Vanities (Blu-ray) 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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  • Rated: R
  • Run Time: 2 hours, 5 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: November 6, 2012
  • Originally Released: 1990
  • Label: Warner Home Video

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User Ratings: 12,124
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. Full Review
Seattle Times
Jun 28, 2013
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... Full Review
Reel Film Reviews
May 10, 2016
Rating: 1.5/4 -- What a mess. Full Review
Philadelphia Inquirer
Jun 28, 2013
Rating: 1/5 -- Certainly Wolfe's canvas might lend itself to a broad approach, but broad like Dr. Strangelove, not broad like the Three Stooges. Full Review
Los Angeles Times
Jun 28, 2013
Rating: 3/5 -- If you're interested in a faithful visual adaptation of Wolfe's novel, be assured that this isn't it. Full Review
Orlando Sentinel
Jun 28, 2013
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. Full Review
Film4
Jun 28, 2013
On film, Bonfire achieves a consistency of ineptitude rare even in this era of over-inflated cinematic air bags. Full Review
Rolling Stone
Jun 28, 2013

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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