Plot
Financial "Master of the Universe" Sherman McCoy sees his life unravel when his mistress Maria Ruskin hits a black boy with his car...
Release Year: 1990
Rating: 5.2/10 (11,750 voted)
Director:
Brian De Palma
Stars: Tom Hanks, Bruce Willis, Melanie Griffith
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.
Writers: Michael Cristofer, Tom Wolfe
Cast: Tom Hanks
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Sherman McCoy
Bruce Willis
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Peter Fallow
Melanie Griffith
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Maria Ruskin
Kim Cattrall
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Judy McCoy
Saul Rubinek
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Jed Kramer
Morgan Freeman
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Judge Leonard White
John Hancock
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Reverend Bacon
Kevin Dunn
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Tom Killian
Clifton James
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Albert Fox
Louis Giambalvo
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Ray Andruitti
Barton Heyman
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Det. Martin
Norman Parker
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Det. Goldberg
Donald Moffat
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Mr. McCoy
Alan King
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Arthur Ruskin
Beth Broderick
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Caroline Heftshank
Taglines:
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.
Release Date: 21 December 1990
Filming Locations: 346 E 59th Street, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
Box Office Details
Budget: $47,000,000
(estimated)
Opening Weekend: $4,216,063
(USA)
(21 December 1990)
Gross: $15,691,192
(USA)
Technical Specs
Runtime:
Did You Know?
Trivia:
The making of this film was chronicled in Julie Salamon's best-selling book "The Devil's Candy."
Goofs:
Continuity:
Before cuckold Arthur Ruskin dies in the restaurant, his cocktail glass alternates from between his hands to outside his hands.
After reading a large number of negative reviews, it finally became
clear to me why this movie is so widely hated - because it honestly
depicts the modern biased race-based American society, in which
uneducated crowds are ready to devour an honest person, and punish him
for a crime he didn't commit. The acting is great, Tom Hanks does an
admirable job, however,it isn't acting which makes the movie great. The
superb directing, creating realistic and horrible scenes of dirty
political games and black (literally) PR, capture my attention. So, to
sum up, a brilliant political satire. The movie could make a laughable
comedy, if it wasn't so terrifying...
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