Wall Street

Name: Wall Street
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1980-01-01

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78%

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81%

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Storyline

Shot at high noon in New York’s financial district, Wallstreet is much like a vertical tickertape, charting the existence of typical office workers. The film’s elongated shadows suggest these workers’ depersonalized, neuter, nearly uniform lives, which flow by without any solid or stable element that might provide definition.

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DirectorJim Jennings

ReleasedJan 1, 1980

StatusReleased

Original languageEnglish

Budget

Not disclosed

Revenue

Not disclosed

Parental guideNot rated

Studio

Film-Makers' Cooperative

Reviews

8 reviews · 7 critics

6 fresh · 1 rotten

Critics consensus

“With Wall Street , Oliver Stone delivers a blunt but effective -- and thoroughly well-acted -- jeremiad against its era's veneration of greed as a means to its own end.”

78% TomatometerRotten Tomatoes

Jay Scott

RTGlobe and MailDec 7, 2022

Stone's script makes towering mountains out of mysterious minutiae, confident that although we may not be able to classify the rocks, we will be able to map the terrain.

Sean French

RTSight & SoundJan 28, 2020

The film benefits enormously from shrewd casting.

David Denby

RTNew York Magazine/VultureDec 31, 2019

Oliver Stone's Wall Street is exactly what I had hoped for -- a sensationally entertaining melodrama about greed and corruption in New York, a movie that evokes the power of big money so strongly that you can savor it on your tongue like Stilton and port.

Mike Studley

RTLiverpool EchoJan 7, 2026

Without [Michael Douglas'] portrayal of the ruthless corporate ruler who has the instincts of a carnivore, this would be a very ordinary movie. As it is, the film struggles to convince and the script is disappointingly cliched.