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Wall Street
(Drama) ( 1987)
© 2000 by Raymond Weschler

Major Characters
Bud (Buddy ) Fox…………………………………….Charlie Sheen
A young, smart and very motivated stock broker
(seller) who dreams of making millions of dollars.
Gordon Gekko………………………………………….Michael Douglas
A very rich, ruthless and immoral stock trader and “corporate raider,” which is a person who buys and sells companies, often with horrible results for company workers.
Darien Taylor……………………………………………Daryl Hannah
A young and beautiful interior decorator with very expensive taste, who is a friend of Gekko’s, and who soon becomes Bud’s girlfriend.
Carl Fox…………………………………………….………Martin Sheen
Bud’s father, a very honest and good man, who is an airplane mechanic and labor union leader at Blue Star Airlines.
Sir Larry Wildman……………………………………Terence Stamp
An extremely rich British corporate raider, who often finds himself fighting against Gekko for control of various companies.
Lou Mannheim………………………………………….Hal Holbrook
An older trader at the brokerage (stock trading firm) where Bud works.
Roger Barnes……………………………………………..James Spader
A corporate lawyer and old friend of Bud’s, who has inside
(secret) information on many companies, thanks to his job.
Marv……………………………………………….………..John C. McGintey
A fellow trader and friend of Bud’s.
Duncan……………………………………………………..William G. Knight
The leader of the pilot’s union at Blue Star airlines.

Plot Summary
This movie is the story of a young and ambitious Wall Street stock broker named Bud Fox, who is determined to become rich like his hero, a stock trader and corporate raider named Gordon Gekko. Gekko is one of the richest,

2 most ruthless and immoral businessmen in the country, who routinely uses inside (secret) corporate information to make deals, even though this is completely illegal. He also buys companies cheap, only to destroy them and their workers’ jobs in order to sell off the company’s assets (such as planes, land, office buildings, etc). For Gekko, “greed is good.”
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