The Bonfire of the Vanities
“Take one Wall Street tycoon, his Fifth Avenue mistress, a reporter hungry for fame, and make the wrong turn in The Bronx...then sit back and watch the sparks fly.”
After his mistress runs over a black teen, a Wall Street hotshot sees his life unravel in the spotlight; A down-and-out reporter breaks the story and opportunists clamber to use it to their advantage.
Genres
Comedy, Drama
Studio
Warner Bros. Pictures
Language
en
Status
Released
How The Bonfire of the Vanities performed
Budget
$47.0M
Worldwide Gross
$15.7M
Gross Profit
−$31.3M
Return
0.3× budget
Opening Wknd (est.)
$2M
Source: TMDB. Domestic/international split (~45/55, genre-typical) and the opening-weekend figure (32% of the domestic run, typical for Comedy) are MoviesRankd estimates. Profit is gross revenue minus production budget and excludes marketing — studios typically need ~2–2.5× budget to break even.
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Cast
Sherman McCoy
Tom Hanks
Sherman McCoy
Peter Fallow
Bruce Willis
Peter Fallow
Maria Ruskin
Melanie Griffith
Maria Ruskin
Judy McCoy
Kim Cattrall
Judy McCoy
Jed Kramer
Saul Rubinek
Jed Kramer
Judge Leonard White
Morgan Freeman
Judge Leonard White
Reverend Bacon
John Hancock
Reverend Bacon
Tom Killian
Kevin Dunn
Tom Killian
Albert Fox
Clifton James
Albert Fox
Ray Andruitti
Louis Giambalvo
Ray Andruitti
Det. Martin
Barton Heyman
Det. Martin
Det. Goldberg
Norman Parker
Det. Goldberg
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