Synopsis: Emerging from a lengthy prison stint, Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas) finds himself on the outside of a world he once dominated. Looking to repair his damaged relationship with his daughter, Gekko forms an alliance with her fiancé Jacob (Shia LaBeouf), and Jacob begins to see him as a father figure. But Jacob learns the hard way that Gekko—still a master manipulator and player—is after something very different from redemption... [Synopsis courtesy of Tribute Magazine]
In honor of the release of J.C. Chandor's "Margin Call" this weekend (and clearly of note with regard to Occupy Wall Street and its hundreds of spinoffs... though box office receipts are unlikely to be something OWS folk get that excited about), here's indieWIRE's list of the top-grossing films set ...
Read More »I’m not a fan of sequels, by and large, but I suppose events of the past few years made it inevitable that someone would devise a followup to Oliver Stone’s Wall Street, which became a touchstone of its era. The new movie isn’t likely to have the same effect, as so many document...
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