The Bonfire of the Vanities

The Bonfire of the Vanities
1990ComedyDrama125 mins

Plot

After his mistress runs over a black teen, a Wall Street hotshot sees his life unravel in the spotlight; A down-and-out reporter breaks the story and opportunists clamber to use it to their advantage.

  • Brian De Palma

    Director

  • Tom Wolfe

    Novel

  • Michael Cristofer

    Screenplay

  • Vilmos Zsigmond

    Director of Photography

  • Beth Jochem Besterveld

    Editor

  • Bill Pankow

    Editor

  • David Ray

    Editor

  • Tom Hanks

    Sherman McCoy

  • Bruce Willis

    Peter Fallow

  • Melanie Griffith

    Maria Ruskin

  • Kim Cattrall

    Judy McCoy

  • Saul Rubinek

    Jed Kramer

  • Morgan Freeman

    Judge Leonard White

  • John Hancock

    Reverend Bacon

  • Kevin Dunn

    Tom Killian

  • Clifton James

    Albert Fox

  • Louis Giambalvo

    Ray Andruitti

  • Barton Heyman

    Det. Martin

  • Norman Parker

    Det. Goldberg

  • Donald Moffat

    Mr. McCoy

  • Alan King

    Arthur Ruskin

  • Beth Broderick

    Caroline Heftshank

  • Kurt Fuller

    Pollard Browning

  • Adam LeFevre

    Rawlie Thorpe

  • Richard Libertini

    Ed Rifkin

  • Andre Gregory

    Aubrey Buffing

  • Mary Alice

    Annie Lamb

  • Robert Stephens

    Sir Gerald Moore

  • Marjorie Monaghan

    Evelyn Moore

  • Rita Wilson

    P.R. Woman

  • Kirsten Dunst

    Campbell McCoy

  • Troy Winbush

    Roland Auburn

  • Patrick Malone

    Henry Lamb

  • Emmanuel Xuereb

    Filippo Chirazzi

  • Scotty Bloch

    Sally Rawthrote

  • Hansford Rowe

    Leon Bavardage

  • Elizabeth Owens

    Inez Bavardage

  • Malachy McCourt

    Tony - Doorman

  • John Eric Bentley

    Bill - Doorman

  • William Clark

    Eddie - Doorman

  • Jeff Brooks

    Bondsman

  • Brennan McKay

    Bondsman

  • Don McManus

    Bondsman

  • James Lally

    Bondsman

  • Marcia Mitzman Gaven

    Bondsman

  • William Woodson

    Gene Lopwitz (voice)

  • Nelson Vasquez

    Pimp

  • De Palmaby pierre
  • Runtime

    125 minutes

    Released

    1990-12-21

    Languages

    English

    Countries

    United States of America

    Studios

    Warner Bros. Pictures

    Sound

  • Dave Grusin

    Original Music Composer

  • Updated

    226 days ago

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