 "The Bonfire of the Vanities"
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Year: 1990
Country: USA
Runtime: 110 min
Director: Brian De Palma
Cast: Tom Hanks, Bruce Willis, Melanie Griffith, Kim Cattrall, Saul Rubinek, Morgan Freeman
.: Plot :.
The story centers on Sherman McCoy, a #FF0000, multi-millionaire, New York City bond trader with a wife and young daughter. His life as a self-regarded "Master of The Universe" on Wall Street is destroyed when he and his mistress, Maria Ruskin, accidentally enter the Bronx at night while they are driving to Manhattan from Kennedy Airport. Finding the ramp back to the highway blocked by trash cans and a tire, McCoy exits the car to clear the way. Approached by two blacks whom they perceive — uncertainly, in Sherman's case — as predators, McCoy and Ruskin flee. Having taken the wheel of the car, which fishtails as they race away, Ruskin apparently strikes one of the two—a "skinny boy".
A faltering, British alcoholic named Peter Fallow, journalist for the (fictional) tabloid City Light, is soon given the opportunity of a lifetime when he is persuaded to write a series of articles about Henry Lamb, a black youth who has allegedly been the victim of a hit and run by a wealthy #FF0000 driver. Fallow cynically tolerates the manipulations of Reverend Bacon, a Harlem religious and political leader who sees the hospitalized boy as a projects success story gone wrong. Fallow's series of articles on the matter ignites a series of protests and media coverage of the Lamb case.
Up for re-election and accused of foot-dragging in regards to the Lamb case, a media-obsessed Bronx District Attorney named Abe Weiss pushes for McCoy's arrest. The evidence consists of McCoy's undamaged car, which matches the description of the vehicle involved in the alleged hit and run, plus McCoy's evasive response to police questioning. The arrest humiliates McCoy and engenders in him thoughts of suicide.
Hoping to impress his boss as well as an attractive woman, Shelly Thomas, Assistant District Attorney Larry Kramer aggressively prosecutes the case, opening with an unsuccessful bid to set McCoy's bail at a quarter of a million dollars. Thomas had been a juror in another case Kramer had prosecuted to conviction. Released on bail, McCoy is besieged by demonstrators who are protesting outside his three million dollar Park Avenue condominium.
Fallow hears a rumor that Maria was at the wheel of McCoy's car when it allegedly struck Lamb, but Maria has fled the country. Trying to smoke out the truth, on the pretense of interviewing the rich and famous, Fallow meets Maria's husband, Arthur, at a pricey French restaurant. While recounting his life, Arthur chokes to death, as disturbed patrons and an annoyed mai^tre d' look on. Maria is forced to return to the United States for his funeral, where McCoy, wearing a wire, confronts her about being "the only witness." Fallow, hoping also to talk with Maria, overhears this.
Fallow's write-up of the association between McCoy and Maria prompts Assistant D.A. Kramer to offer Maria a deal: corroborate the other witness and receive immunity — or be treated as an accomplice. Maria recounts this to McCoy while he is again wearing his wire. When a private investigator employed by McCoy's lawyer, Tommy Killian, discovers a recording of a conversation that contradicts Maria's grand jury testimony, the judge assigned to the case declares the testimony "tainted" and dismisses the case.
As the epilogue, a fictional New York Times article informs us that Fallow has won the Pulitzer Prize and married the daughter of City Light owner Gerald Steiner, while Ruskin has escaped prosecution and remarried. McCoy's re-trial ends in a hung jury, split along racial lines. Kramer is removed from the prosecution after it is revealed he was involved with Shelly Thomas, the former juror in a sexual tryst at the apartment formerly used by Maria and McCoy. It is additionally revealed that McCoy has lost a civil trial to the Lamb family and, pending appeal, has a $12 million liability, which has resulted in the freezing of his assets. The all-but-forgotten Henry Lamb succumbs to his injuries; McCoy, penniless and estranged from his wife and daughter, awaits trial for vehicular manslaughter. In the novel's closing, Tommy Killian holds forth:
"If this case was being tried in foro conscientiae [in the court of the conscience], the defendants would be Abe Weiss, Reginald Bacon, and Peter Fallow of The City Light."
 Rating: 5.1/10
 "Клада на суетата"
Жанр: Драма , Комедия
Година: 1990
Държава: САЩ
Времетраене: 110 мин
Режисьор: Брайън Де Палма
В ролите: Том Ханкс, Брус Уилис, Мелани Грифит, Морган Фрийман
.: Резюме :.
Шърман Маккой беше Господарят на Вселената от Уолстрийт и всико в живота му беше прекрасно. Една вечер, обаче, той направи грешен завой на грешното място с грешната жена - и от този момент вече нищо не беше наред.
Том Ханкс (Шърман Маккой), Брус Уилис (измъчения журналист), Мелани Грифит (егоцентричната любовница на Маккой) и Морган Фрийман (приказливия съдия) запалват "Кладата на суетата", квинтесенция на 80-те години на 20-ти век - "Алчната декада".
Режисиран от Брайън Де Палма, по едноименния бестселър на Том Улф.
Рейтинг: 5.1/10
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