The Bonfire of the Vanities (movie)

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The Bonfire of the Vanities
Directed byBrian De Palma
Screenplay byMichael Cristofer
Based onThe Bonfire of the Vanities
by Tom Wolfe
Produced byBrian De Palma
Starring
CinematographyVilmos Zsigmond
Edited byBill Pankow
David Ray
Music byDave Grusin
Distributed byWarner Bros.
Release date
  • December 21, 1990 (1990-12-21)
Running time
126 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$47 million
Box office$15.6 million

The Bonfire of the Vanities is a 1990 American drama movie. It is based on the novel Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe. Tom Hanks plays Sherman McCoy, Bruce Willis plays Peter Fallow, Kim Cattrall plays Judy McCoy, Melanie Griffith plays Maria Ruskin, Morgan Freeman plays Judge Leonard White. The movie is based on the novel of the same name and is focused on corporate greed, vanity and lust during the late 1980s in New York City. This movie was given substandard reviews by the movie critics; it was a huge box office bomb.

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