Wall Street (1987)

A young ambitious stockbroker (Charlie Sheen) is taken under the wing of a wealthy and unscrupulous corporate raider (Michael Douglas in an Oscar winning performance). The young man quickly rises to the top, perhaps too fast. Co-written and directed by Oliver Stone (PLATOON). The world of Wall Street, stockbrokers and trading is alien to me. While much of the film's insider stuff may have been lost on me, I still found it a fascinating movie except for the film's last 20 minutes or so when it falls apart and gets a little predictable and even mushy. But up until then, it moves along at a breakneck speed and you can see why someone would be attracted to such a world. Michael Douglas has enough star appeal to make his robber baron of Wall Street attractive but I found young Sheen a little on the drab side. The excellent percussion score is by Stewart Copeland of The Police. With Daryl Hannah, Terence Stamp, Martin Sheen, Hal Holbrook, Sean Young, Millie Perkins, Sylvia Miles, James Spader, James Karen and Monique Van Vooren.