Bud Fox (Charlie Sheen) is a Wall Street stockbroker in early 1980's New York with a strong desire to get to the top. Working for his firm during the day, he spends his spare time working an on angle with with to approach the high-powered, extremely successful (but ruthless and greedy) broker Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas). Fox finally meets with Gekko, who takes the youth under his wing and explains his philosophy that "Greed is Good". Taking the advice and working closely with Gekko, Fox soon finds himself swept into a world of "yuppies", shady business deals, the "good life", fast money, and fast women; something which is at odds with his family including his estranged father (Martin Sheen) and the blue-collared way Fox was brought up.


Books with substantial mentioning of Wall Street

Paul Verhoeven, Rob van Scheers
Meer Verhoeven, Op stap door de filmgeschiedenis met Paul Verhoeven
Amsterdam, 2014

Sven-Ole Andersen
Goethes Faust in Hollywood, Motive der Tragödie und des Themas in Ausgewählten Filmen
Frankfurt am Main, 2013

David Thomson
Have you seen?, A personal introduction to 1,000 films
New York, 2008

Don Kunz (editor)
The Films of Oliver Stone
Lanham, Md., & London, 1997

Frank N. Magill (ed.)
Magill's Cinema Annual 1988, A Survey of the Films of 1987
Pasadena, California; Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1988
pp. 364-367 info