1987 · drama · crime
Wall Street (1987)
Directed by Oliver Stone2h 6m1987
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.
Our read: Wall Street (1987) (1987) reads as a sombre, kinetic, grounded drama · crime entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured drama / crime, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- sombre
- brisk
- intense
- bleak
- cold
- twisty
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How Wall Street feels to watch.
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What watching it is actually like.
“You want eighties greed drama where ambition and conscience finally collide.”
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