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The Bonfire of the Vanities
After his mistress runs over a young teen, powerful Wall Street executive Sherman McCoy sees his life unravel in the spotlight, and attracting the interest of a down and out reporter.
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24 August 1956, Chicago, Illinois, USA
25 January 1975, Montego Bay, Jamaica
28 February 1959, New York City, New York, USA
19 January 1929, New York City, New York, USA
8 February 1945, Brooklyn, New York, USA
22 July 1942, Chicago, Illinois, USA
12 May 1924, Richmond, Virginia, USA
14 July 1931, Bristol, England, UK
24 October 1939, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
2 July 1948, Föhrenwald, Wolfratshausen, Bavaria, Germany
17 January 1941, Brooklyn, New York, USA
June 28, 2013
Brian DePalma lapses into idle, slapsticky digressions. You don't get angry at what he's attacking, or defensive; you just get weary.
June 28, 2013
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.
June 28, 2013
Certainly Wolfe's canvas might lend itself to a broad approach, but broad like Dr. Strangelove, not broad like the Three Stooges.
June 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.
May 10, 2016
It's ultimately not difficult to see why The Bonfire of the Vanities was (and still is) regarded as an epic big-budget bomb...
June 28, 2013
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.
June 28, 2013
What a mess.
June 28, 2013
Tom Wolfe's widely read satire becomes a tedious farce, turning one of the year's most anticipated movies into one of the most disappointing.
June 28, 2013
The film was cast wrong and written shallowly.
June 28, 2013
On film, Bonfire achieves a consistency of ineptitude rare even in this era of over-inflated cinematic air bags.
June 28, 2013
If you're interested in a faithful visual adaptation of Wolfe's novel, be assured that this isn't it.
June 28, 2013
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.