The Bonfire of the Vanities [1990 film]

by Brian De Palma (Director), Michael Cristofer (Screenwriter)

Other authors: Kim Cattrall (Actor), Morgan Freeman (Actor), Melanie Griffith (Actor), Tom Hanks (Actor), Saul Rubinek (Actor) — 2 more, Bruce Willis (Actor), Tom Wolfe

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A Wall Street wheeler-dealer has everything going his way. But one night, in the right car with the wrong woman, he took a wrong turn at the wrong place, and nothing has gone right ever since!

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2021 movie #128. 1990 You'd be excused after seeing the cast, the director, and the source material for thinking this was a hit movie. But it wasn't well received and flopped at the box office. I thought it wasn't terrible, in fact, watchable, although a bit over wrought at times (

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Author name	Role	Type of author	Work?	Status
De Palma, Brian	Director	primary author	all editions	confirmed
Cristofer, Michael	Screenwriter	main author	all editions	confirmed
Cattrall, Kim	Actor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Freeman, Morgan	Actor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Griffith, Melanie	Actor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Hanks, Tom	Actor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Rubinek, Saul	Actor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Willis, Bruce	Actor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Wolfe, Tom	—	secondary author	all editions	confirmed

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The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe

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The Bonfire of the Vanities (film) by Frederic P. Miller

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The Bonfire of the Vanities [1990 film]

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The Bonfire of the Vanities

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1990-12-21

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A Wall Street wheeler-dealer has everything going his way. But one night, in the right car with the wrong woman, he took a wrong turn at the wrong place, and nothing has gone right ever since!

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