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 enlarge | Director: Oliver Stone
Actors: Charlie Sheen, Michael Douglas, Tamara Tunie, Franklin Cover, Chuck Pfeiffer
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Category: DVD
Buy New: £9.87
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (21 reviews)
Sales Rank: 79273
Format: Ac-3, Collector's Edition, Colour, Dolby, Dubbed, Dvd-video, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Dubbed), Spanish (Dubbed)
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Running Time: 125 minutes
Number Of Items: 2
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
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Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 2244052
UPC: 024543440529
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Release Date: September 18, 2007
Theatrical Release Date: December 11, 1987
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Michael Douglas won an Oscar for perfectly embodying the Reagan-era credo that "greed is good." 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 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 movie's sledgehammer style is undeniably effective. A cautionary warning that Stone delivers on highly entertaining terms, IWall Street/I grabs your attention whilst questioning the corrupted values of a system that worships profit at the cost of one's soul. --IJeff Shannon, Amazon.com/I
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 Very sharp and insightful January 4, 2009
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 severe legislation, still go on. Benefited from being made right smack in the middle of it. Douglas has a wail of a time as the megabucks megelamaniac who causes chaos with his amoral and ruthless buying practices. It all looks like caricature from a typically liberal Hollywood team, but we have recently seen excessive and illegal practices far worse than those depicted in this movie, and the global harm and chaos they cause. br /br /Maybe it was all a little predictable but it was very smartly handled by the director and made for great entertainment. The rich dialogue borders on the sententious, and there isn't a great deal of difference between the speech of most of the characters, which is a technical fault if you're being critical, but it is memorable. Works almost like a thriller with its complex and involving plots. All the side characters are well written, especially the hangers on such as yuppy gogetter Daryl Hannah, who was magnificent in the role. Didn't know how good an actor she really is until I saw this film. DVD has an interesting and informative commentary from director Stone, who comes across as far more modest than he is sometimes made out to be.
 Buy the DVD November 10, 2008
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.
 Greed is good? January 30, 2008
15 out of 15 found this review helpful
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.br /br /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. br /br /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.
one of the movies that defined the financial era of the 80's June 28, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
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.br /br /Bud Fox (Charlie Sheen) is an up and coming stock broker who dreams of getting that big account. He works at a firm, calling people and trying to get customers. Then suddenly it happens. He manages to catch the big fish that everyone wants to catch. Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas) is a big-shot in the business and soon Bud Fox is treated to the wonders of big finance, but also to it's less flattering sides. Best remembered for Gekko's phrase,'Greed is Good.'br /
Be nostalgic and look at the twin towers June 4, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
The film avoids as much as possible the sentimental side of things and concentrates on the financial depth of the business. There is a slight touch of romanticism with the cover-girl, sorry home decorator. There is a little bit more feeling with the father, maybe because the father is playing the father and the son is playing the son, though it remains essentially business, in this case union business. Then there is nothing but buying and selling, owning and dumping, saving and killing, and the game is only pleasant if it is always both together. To kill one by saving another and to buy one in order to make the other sell and then buy him out. Even the police and justice are used that way. I expose you to the police to humiliate you and have you arrested, but then you trap me for the police with a tape-recorder and you will get a rap on the fingers from the judge while I will get to prison. When you know that that I was the one who wanted to kill a certain company that that you decided to save by having it bought by the sworn enemy of that I, you understand what inside business and inside dealing and inside embezzling and inside anything you want means. Just read or watch American Psycho, Unrated Version, and you will have the schizophrenic reading of the same situation. This film is maybe slightly too technical, but it is the way we are totally messed up in our lives by a bunch of psychopaths who have enough money to buy the federal government out of the federal reserve at Fort Knox, or vice versa, which might even be funnier. As Gekko said so simply: "You're not naive enough to think we are in a democracy. It's the free market." And we are the bait to catch the fish or the fish caught by the hook, or even maybe nothing but the hook itself to catch the shark.br /br /Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris Dauphine University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonnebr /
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