Wall Street, released in 1987 by 20th Century Fox, was directed by Oliver Stone. The film stars Michael Douglas, Charlie Sheen, Daryl Hannah, Terence Stamp, Hal Holbrook, and James Spader. Martin Sheen, Charlie's real-life dad, also appears as Charlie Sheen's character's father.
Stone wrote the script with Stanley Weiser. Douglas's character, Gordon Gekko, is a powerful but unscrupulous Wall Street player who embodies everything that was bad during the excesses of the 1980s. Gekko opines that "greed, for lack of a better word, is good," while Charlie Sheen's character, Bud Fox, grapples with his own demons. The movie's domestic gross was over $43 million on a $15 million budget.
