The Bonfire of the Vanities
(1990)
★ 5.6 IMDb · 553 votes
Year: 1990
Runtime: 125 мин
Country: United States of America
Director: Брайан Де Пальма
Cast: Том Хэнкс, Брюс Уиллис, Мелани Гриффит, Ким Кэттролл, Сол Рубинек, Морган Фримен, John Hancock, Кевин Данн, Клифтон Джеймс, Louis Giambalvo
Plot
After his mistress runs over a black teen, a Wall Street hotshot sees his life unravel in the spotlight; A down-and-out reporter breaks the story and opportunists clamber to use it to their advantage.
Financial "Master of the Universe" Sherman McCoy sees his life unravel when his mistress Maria Ruskin hits a Black boy with his car. When 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.