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The Bonfire of the Vanities
The dramatic film revolves around an interesting collection of great events. Where a black young man collides with a car driven by a white person. An investigation into the incident is opened. Searching for the vehicle, it turns out that its owner is a wealthy businessman. When asked about his whereabouts at the time of the accident, he is afraid to tell the truth because he was with his married mistress.
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23 August 1955, New York City, New York, USA
24 February 1947, McComas, West Virginia, USA
19 March 1964, Orange County, California, USA
26 October 1956, Los Angeles, California, USA
18 September 1942, Corpus Christi, Texas, USA
14 August 1938, Chicago, Illinois, USA
15 May 1935, Cairo, Egypt
June 28, 2013
In this heavy-handed and uneven treatment, De Palma drains Tom Wolfe's original story of its humour, and must shoulder the blame for its failure.
June 28, 2013
Certainly Wolfe's canvas might lend itself to a broad approach, but broad like Dr. Strangelove, not broad like the Three Stooges.
June 28, 2013
If you're interested in a faithful visual adaptation of Wolfe's novel, be assured that this isn't it.
June 28, 2013
Brian DePalma lapses into idle, slapsticky digressions. You don't get angry at what he's attacking, or defensive; you just get weary.
June 28, 2013
On film, Bonfire achieves a consistency of ineptitude rare even in this era of over-inflated cinematic air bags.
June 28, 2013
Tom Wolfe's widely read satire becomes a tedious farce, turning one of the year's most anticipated movies into one of the most disappointing.
June 28, 2013
The film was cast wrong and written shallowly.
June 28, 2013
Brian DePalma`s The Bonfire of the Vanities is a perfect example of how a best-selling book can be carefully altered, perceptively pruned and converted into an intriguing motion picture.
June 28, 2013
If you loved Wolfe's book, you may very well hate the movie. If you simply liked the novel, you may be simultaneously entertained and disappointed by what De Palma and Cristofer have done to it.
June 28, 2013
Reduced to pure plot, the narrative is not so much a sendup of 1980s hypocrisy as an orgy of banal, juvenile mean-spiritedness. The irony of Wolfe's book becomes shrill, screaming sarcasm, unpleasant, and, worse, unfunny.
May 10, 2016
It's ultimately not difficult to see why The Bonfire of the Vanities was (and still is) regarded as an epic big-budget bomb...
June 28, 2013
What a mess.
