Bonfire of the Vanities

Academy Award winner Tom Hanks stars with Bruce Willis, Melanie Griffith and Morgan Freeman in the film adaptation of Tom Wolfe's best-selling novel that revels in the excesses of the New York of the '80s, The Bonfire of the Vanities. Take one Wall Street tycoon, his Fifth Avenue mistress, a reporter hungry for fame and a wrong turn in The Bronx... Wall Street tycoon Sherman McCoy (Hanks) takes that wrong turn in his Mercedes, gets lost in The Bronx--and runs down a poor Black teenager. Rather than stop in a dangerous neighborhood, he leaves the boy to die. But this act of callow brutality begins a chain of events that will rock the global center of Capitalism and shatter the self-indulgent, greedy life that Sherman McCoy had believed was untouchable.