Financial "Master of the Universe" Sherman McCoy sees his life unravel when his mistress Maria Ruskin hits a Black boy with his car. When journalist Peter Fallow enflames public opinion with a series of distorted tabloid articles on the accident, the case is seized upon by opportunists like Reverend Bacon and mayoral candidate D.A. Abe Weiss.... (Full plot summary below)
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Financial "Master of the Universe" Sherman McCoy sees his life unravel when his mistress Maria Ruskin hits a Black boy with his car. When journalist Peter Fallow enflames public opinion with a series of distorted tabloid articles on the accident, the case is seized upon by opportunists like Reverend Bacon and mayoral candidate D.A. Abe Weiss.
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| Slant MagazinePaul SchrodtFor all its polish, Bonfire of the Vanities neither sustains the feverish, revolutionary energy nor reaches the visceral peak of Hi, Mom! But as major Hollywood pictures go, it can become stunningly hot-tempered, a quality most journalists are too quick to ignore. |
| Washington PostDesson ThomsonThis is comic-book coverage. If the strength of the novel was the interplay between Wolfe's dry-white reportage and the sensational, tabloid-tacky humorous events he wrote about, "Vanities"-the-movie just goes for the tacky jugular. |
| Ozus' World Movie ReviewsDennis SchwartzHas more embarrassing moments than good ones. |
| Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanOne of the most indecently bad movies of the year. |
| The Seattle TimesJohn HartlWhat De Palma delivers is merely a mediocre yuppy nightmare movie, stylistically flashy but with little pace, bite or pathos. |
| Orlando SentinelJay BoyarAs an evening out: Its many faults notwithstanding, Bonfire does have at least one thing going for it. The movie is a mess, but, like Wise Guys, it's a lively mess. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertThe beauty of the Wolfe book was the way it saw through its time and place, dissecting motives and reading minds. The movie sees much, but it doesn't see through. |
| Rolling StonePeter TraversDirector Brian De Palma’s $45 million film version of the book is superficial, shopworn and cartoonish. On film, Bonfire achieves a consistency of ineptitude rare even in this era of over-inflated cinematic air bags. |
| The Associated PressDolores BarclayThe Bonfire Of The Vanities gets a lot of things right but they're largely negated by the colossal things it gets wrong. |
| South Florida Sun-SentinelRoger HurlburtBrian 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. |
