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    Unique ID Code: 0000003321
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    Added on: 28/1/2000 18:14
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    Bonfire Of The Vanities (UK)

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    An outrageous story of greed, lust and vanity in America
    Certificate: 15
    Running Time: 120 mins
    Retail Price: £15.99
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    Synopsis:
    Sherman McCoy was Wall Street`s Master of the Universe - and everything in his life was right. Then one night he took a wrong turn at the wrong place with the wrong woman. And nothing has gone right since.

    Tom Hanks as McCoy, Bruce Willis as a jaded journalist, Melanie Griffith as McCoy`s self-centered mistress and Morgan Freeman as an outspoken judge ignite `The Bonfire Of The Vanities`, the quintessential story of the go-for-it `80s.

    Based on Tom Wolfe`s best seller and directed by Brian DePalma (`Mission: Impossible`), this freewheeling film pokes hilarious fun at the glitzy Greed Decade. It`s a comic circus so outrageous a single spark could start a bonfire!

    Special Features:
    Interactive Menus
    Scene Access

    Video Tracks:
    Widescreen Letterbox 1.85:1

    Audio Tracks:
    Dolby Digital Surround 2.0 English

    Subtitle Tracks:
    French
    Italian
    CC: Italian
    Romanian
    English
    Spanish
    German
    CC: English
    Portuguese
    Dutch
    Arabic
    Bulgarian

    Directed By:
    Brian De Palma

    Written By:


    Starring:
    Saul Rubinek
    Melanie Griffith
    Tom Hanks
    Morgan Freeman
    Kim Cattrall
    Bruce Willis

    Casting By:
    Lynn Stalmaster

    Soundtrack By:
    Dave Grusin

    Director of Photography:
    Vilmos Zsigmond

    Editor:
    David Ray
    Bill Pankow

    Costume Designer:
    Ann Roth

    Production Designer:
    Richard Sylbert

    Producer:
    Monica Goldstein
    Fred C. Caruso
    Brian De Palma

    Executive Producer:
    Jon Peters
    Peter Guber

    Distributor:
    Warner Bros

    Your Opinions and Comments

    4 / 10
    De Palma`s worst effort, it`s actually not that bad, there are some wonderful moments in it, like the opening 13 minutes, ehich is great cinema. some of it is actually funny, although it ultimately fails as social satire, and fails quite miserably aswell.
    posted by Richard73 on 7/2/2001 20:33