Wall Street
A young and impatient stockbroker is willing to do anything to get to the top, including trading on illegal inside information taken through a ruthless and greedy corporate raider whom takes the youth under his wing.
- Director:Oliver Stone
- Genre:Crime / Drama
- Runtime:126 minutes
Cast
Charlie Sheen : Bud Fox
Tamara Tunie : Carolyn
Franklin Cover : Dan
Chuck Pfeiffer : Chuckie (as Chuck Pfeifer)
John C. McGinley: Marvin
A stockbroker at Jackson-Steinem, Bud Fox (Charlie Sheen), is desperate to get to the top. He wants to become involved with his hero, the extremely successful but unscrupulous corporate raider Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas), a ruthless and legendary Wall Street player whose values could not conflict more with those of Bud’s father Carl (Martin Sheen), a blue-collar airline maintenance foreman. In an effort to win Gekko as a client, Bud visits with Gekko on his birthday and pitches him stocks which Bud had been analyzing for some time. However, Gekko is unimpressed, calling the stocks “dogs”. Realizing that Gekko may not do business with him, a desperate Bud provides him with some inside information which Bud had learned in a casual conversation the day before from his father. Carl is a maintenance chief and union representative at a small airline, Bluestar, and tells Bud it will soon be cleared of a safety violation after a previous crash. The ruling will bring the airline out from under government suspension, allowing it to expand its business. Gekko tells him he’ll think about what Bud has told him. A dejected Bud returns to his office where Gekko places an order for Bluestar stock, and becoming one of Bud’s client.
An appreciative Gekko takes Bud under his wing, but compels him to unearth new information by any means necessary, including becoming a partner in a cleaning company to gain access to confidential files in the offices of the clients of the cleaning company. Bud becomes wealthy, enjoying Gekko’s promised perks, including a corner office with a view, a penthouse on Manhattan’s Upper East Side and a trophy blonde, interior decorator Darien (Daryl Hannah). Gekko asks Bud to buy large quantities of stock in a paper company, Teldar, a failing company which Gekko wants to takeover and turn around. Bud does this by enlisting his friends as straw buyers of the stock and giving them a cut of the proceeds. It is at the Teldar annual stockholder’s meeting where Gekko gives his infamous “Greed is good” speech.
As this mentor/protege relationship develops, Bud pitches an idea to Gekko. The plan is to buy Bluestar Airlines and expand the company using savings achieved by union concessions. Bud wants his father, Carl, to get union support for the plan and push for the deal. Although Carl does not like Gekko, Bud is able to coax him into it. Things change when Bud learns that Gekko plans to sell off Bluestar’s assets, an act that would leave Carl and the entire Bluestar staff unemployed, but would make Bud extremely rich as the president of Bluestar. Angered by Gekko’s decision, and wracked with the guilt of being an accessory to Bluestar’s destruction, Bud chooses his father over his mentor and resolves to disrupt Gekko’s plans. He angrily breaks up with Darien, who refuses to plot against Gekko, a former lover and the architect of her career. Read more
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