The Bonfire of the Vanities (Blu-ray) R
Take one Wall Street tycoon, his Fifth Avenue mistress, a reporter hungry for fame, and make the wrong turn in The Bronx...then sit back and watch the sparks fly.
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 2 hours, 5 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: November 6, 2012
- Originally Released: 1990
- Label: Warner Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Tom Hanks, Melanie Griffith & Bruce Willis | |
Performer: | Morgan Freeman, Saul Rubinek, Kim Cattrall, Kevin Dunn, Clifton James, John Hancock, Donald Moffat, Beth Broderick, Kurt Fuller, Mary Alice, Adam LeFevre, Richard Libertini, Kirsten Dunst, Alan King, Louis Giambalvo, Barton Heyman, Emmanuel Xuereb, F. Murray Abraham & Marjorie Monaghan | |
Directed by | Brian De Palma | |
Edited by | Bill Pankow & David Ray | |
Screenplay by | Michael Cristofer | |
Composition by | Dave Grusin | |
Story by | Tom Wolfe | |
Produced by | Brian De Palma | |
Director of Photography: | Vilmos Zsigmond | |
Executive Production by | Jon Peters & Peter Guber |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 2.5/4 --
If you loved Wolfe's book, you may very well hate the movie. If you simply liked the novel, you may be simultaneously entertained and disappointed by what De Palma and Cristofer have done to it.
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Seattle Times
Rating: 1.5/4 --
It's ultimately not difficult to see why The Bonfire of the Vanities was (and still is) regarded as an epic big-budget bomb...
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Reel Film Reviews
Rating: 1.5/4 --
What a mess.
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Rating: 1/5 --
Certainly Wolfe's canvas might lend itself to a broad approach, but broad like Dr. Strangelove, not broad like the Three Stooges.
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Los Angeles Times
Rating: 3/5 --
If you're interested in a faithful visual adaptation of Wolfe's novel, be assured that this isn't it.
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Orlando Sentinel
In this heavy-handed and uneven treatment, De Palma drains Tom Wolfe's original story of its humour, and must shoulder the blame for its failure.
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Film4
On film, Bonfire achieves a consistency of ineptitude rare even in this era of over-inflated cinematic air bags.
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Rolling Stone
Product Description:
Brian De Palma (SCARFACE) directed this lavish adaptation of Tom Wolfe's best-selling satirical novel, featuring Tom Hanks, Melanie Griffith, and Bruce Willis. Hanks stars as Sherman McCoy, a distinctly 1980s brand of wealthy Wall Street wizard who takes a mighty fall from his glitzy lifestyle after he and his mistress (Griffith) put a Bronx youth into a coma via a hit-and-run accident. Alcoholic reporter Peter Fallow (Willis) sees the crime as an opportunity for big headlines, and soon Sherman is the target of every political and media group in the city, including an Al Sharpton-style black leader named Rev. Bacon (John Hancock) and a sleazy D.A. (F. Murray Abraham). SEX IN THE CITY babe Kim Catrall costars as Sherman's long-suffering wife, and Morgan Freeman is the judge who tries to reign in this three-ring media circus of a case. Like the decade it parodies, this film is proudly over the top in its lavishness. It's also filled to overflowing with inspired casting, wildly inventive comedy, and the sort of artistically ambitious tracking shots for which its director is renowned.
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- Sales Rank: 55,087
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