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Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
As the global economy teeters on the brink of disaster, a young Wall Street trader partners with disgraced former Wall Street corporate raider Gordon Gekko on a two tiered mission: To alert the financial community to the coming doom, and to find out who was responsible for the death of the young trader's mentor.
2010 · Directed by Oliver Stone · 133 min · Drama · Crime · Screenplay in the scene database · 11 frames
Tagline
Gordon never gives up.
Plot
In 2001, former corporate raider Gordon Gekko is released from prison after serving time for insider trading and securities fraud.
By 2008, Gekko has begun promoting his new book Is Greed Good?, warning about a possible 2008 financial crisis. His estranged daughter, Winnie, runs a small, non-profit news website and is dating Jacob "Jake" Moore, a top prop trader at Keller Zabel Investments (KZI). Jake, a protégé of KZI managing director Louis Zabel, has been raising money for Dr. Masters and his fusion research project, which might create abundant clean energy. Jake is also financially assisting his mother, Sylvia, who has quit nursing to speculate in residential real estate.
In the early stages of the downturn predicted by Gekko, KZI's stock loses more than half its value. Louis Zabel tries to arrange a bailout for KZI from other Wall Street banks, but is blocked by Bretton James, head of rival firm Churchill Schwartz (Church), which KZI had refused to help during the dot-com bubble years earlier. Despondent, Zabel kills himself by jumping in front of a subway train. A distraught Jake proposes marriage to Winnie, who accepts.
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Crew
- Written by: Allan Loeb, Stephen Schiff, Stanley Weiser, Oliver Stone
- Cinematography: Rodrigo Prieto
- Edited by: David Brenner, Julie Monroe
- Music: Craig Armstrong
- Production design: Kristi Zea
- Produced by: Eric Kopeloff, Edward R. Pressman, Oliver Stone
Cast
- Michael Douglas as Gordon Gekko
- Shia LaBeouf as Jacob Moore
- Josh Brolin as Bretton James
- Carey Mulligan as Winnie Gekko
- Frank Langella as Lewis Zabel
- Susan Sarandon as Sylvia Moore
- Eli Wallach as Julie Steinhardt
- Vanessa Ferlito as Audrey
- Jason Clarke as Jack Schwietzer
- Alexander Wraith as Jake's friend at club
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: Pressman Film, Dune Entertainment III, Dune Entertainment, 20th Century Fox
- Budget: $70,000,000
- Box office: $134,748,021
- Themes: wall street, duringcreditsstinger, hostile, domineering, complex, anxious, cautionary, audacious, doubtful
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