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Bonfire of the Vanities (The)

Country: USA, Language: English, 125 mins

  • Director: Brian De Palma
  • Writer: Michael Cristofer; Tom Wolfe
  • Producer: Fred C. Caruso; Brian De Palma

CGiii Comment

Panned by the critics...and, despised by those who loved the book...

The joke - that no-one seemed to grasp - was, simply, about the ego.

The egos of the characters, the actors and the director - the book was all about ego, so is the film! It's the over-inflated ego of the filmmaker that makes this so [film] unpalatable.

Ego, talent and money - they don't, necessarily, have to go harmoniously hand-in-hand. There is nothing harmonious about this train-wreck of a film.


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The(ir) Blurb...

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.

Cast & Characters

Tom Hanks as Sherman McCoy;
Bruce Willis as Peter Fallow;
Melanie Griffith as Maria Ruskin;
Kim Cattrall as Judy McCoy;
Saul Rubinek as Jed Kramer;
Morgan Freeman as Judge Leonard White;
John Hancock as Reverend Bacon;
Kevin Dunn as Tom Killian;
Clifton James as Albert Fox;
Louis Giambalvo as Ray Andruitti;
Barton Heyman as Det. Martin;
Norman Parker as Det. Goldberg;
Donald Moffat as Mr. McCoy;
Alan King as Arthur Ruskin;
Beth Broderick as Caroline Heftshank