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starring: Tom Hanks, Bruce Willis, Melanie Griffith, Kim Cattrall, Saul Rubinek directed by: Brian De Palma See Larger Image Used Price: $0.01 Collectible Price: $14.98 Third Party New Price: $1.86 Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9786301975957 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, NTSC ISBN: 6301975952 Label: Warner Home Video Manufacturer: Warner Home Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Warner Home Video Release Date: September 14, 1998 Running Time: 125 minutes Sales Rank: 33830 Studio: Warner Home Video Theatrical Release Date: December 21, 1990 Related Items: Barbarians at the Gate Wall Street The Bonfire of the Vanities: A Novel Every Time We Say Goodbye Glengarry Glen Ross see more Editorial Review: Amazon.com: Handle with care--this one's a bomb! Director Brian De Palma seemed an unlikely choice to transfer Tom Wolfe's mammoth bestseller-- a vibrantly satiric story about race, politics, and greed in 1980s New York--to the screen. In this case, the first impression was correct. Made with a tin ear to everything that made the book so real, the movie gets it wrong every time, starting with casting Tom Hanks in the central role (which, as anyone with brains knew, should have been played by William Hurt). Move along to the choice of Bruce Willis for the sneaky British tabloid journalist and, well, need I say more? As stylish as any De Palma film, this story of a Wall Street broker whose extramarital shenanigans trigger a racial incident that becomes front-page news gets no help from Michael Cristofer's tone-deaf script. After watching it, read Julie Salomon's behind-the-scenes book about its making, The Devil's Candy, which is much more entertaining. --Marshall Fine Customer Reviews Average Rating: Rating: - prophetic social commentary Watch it now as Wall Street falls apart under the weight of poorly structured derivatives. It takes on an eerie immediacy. Deja vu, all over again. Rating: - Terrible Adaptation This movie was probably the worst adaptation of a book I have ever seen in my entire life. De Palma missed EVERYTHING that made Tom Wolfe's book so incredible. The fact that this movie is billed as comedy should be enough to deter those who enjoyed the book from watching it. Absolutely terrible film. Read the book and don't see the movie. Rating: - The truth shall set you free, and if it doesn't,... LIE LIKE HELL! I saw this film in the theaters as a teenager having not read or even heard of the book. I really enjoyed it because of the actors, the characters and their backstories. I just love satire. I hadn't even heard of Reverand Al. Now, this movie still amuses me, but on more levels. A year after I saw this film, I took a cinema class in college, where the instructor blamed the trashing of the film on its New York City premiere, where the local reviewers panned the movie for airing their city's dirty laundry. ... Read More Rating: - What a Mess. So sad. A great 5 star novel turned into a 1 star movie. Totally miscast in every character. If anyone in a Holywood studio is out there, this is one movie that needs to be REMADE, so that its true to the novel. Rating: - De Palma doesn't do straight satire. Personally, I watched the movie without having read the book, which could be seen as both a good and a bad thing. On one hand, it allows me to judge the film as exactly that - a film, with no other conflicting point of reference to cloud my opinions. On the other, it means I'm pretty much ignorant as to whether or not the screen version succeeds or fails in living up to its story's potential. 'The Bonfire Of The Vanities' is a good film: nothing more, nothing less. So why, then, was it so universally slated ... Read More see more Browse for similar items by category: Comedy - Genres - VHS - Video - Black Comedy By Theme - Comedy - Genres - VHS - Video - Class Differences Comedy Stars - Comedy - Genres - VHS - Video - Tom Hanks Comedy - Genres - VHS - Video - Satire Comedy - Genres - VHS - Video - General AAS