Classic Movie Flashback 'Wall Street' 1987 with Michael Douglas

WALL STREET distributed by 20TH CENTURY FOX (1987). It stars Michael Douglas and Charlie Sheen. It was directed and co-written by Oliver Stone. The production budget climbed to $16.5 million. It grabbed $43 million at the worldwide box office.

The story surrounds Bud Fox (Charlie Sheen) who is a junior stockbroker on "wall street." He is an ambitious young man who meets his idol Gordon Gekko (Micheal Douglas). He's a legendary "street" player who makes loads of money. Gekko takes Fox under his wing and introduces him to the dark side of making money. Fox gets in too deep and struggles to get out of illegal activity.

Michael Douglas won the Oscar as best actor for "Wall Street" (1988). His Gordon Gekko is absolute slime who has loads of handsome charisma. His "greed, is good" speech is what makes the film so popular. It still resonates 37 years later (2024) because of 1980's excess.

In my opinion.... Oliver Stone made a film about capitalism. It involves everyone from Gordon Gekko down to the regular working man. It's about Money. How to get it through hard work or by simple greed. 

I like Gekko's line in the film, "You want a friend. Get a dog."

Below is the 30th Anniversary movie trailer of "Wall Street" (2017).

1987 Publicity Still of "Wall Street." Charlie Sheen and Michael Douglas.