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Oliver Stone's remarkable film transports us to 1986, where we meet Bud Fox played by Charlie Sheen, a young executive bored with his tedious job as a trader. He dreams of becoming a heavy hitter in his corporate profession and sets his sights on a famous Wall Street wizard named Gordon Gekko played by Michael Douglas.
Bud sees his future and dream of fortune in Gordon, the epitome of the '80s stock and real-estate speculator. Always the studious and honest hard worker, Bud soon realizes that in order to make it to the top of the corporate ladder and become a power player among the business world elite, he must lie, cheat and steal. Bud stops listening to his conscience and soon becomes lured into the illegal but lucrative world of corporate espionage by his new found mentor and hero, Gordon. In no time at all, Bud assumes the "yuppy" (young urban professional) status he has always dreamed of.
With his posh Upper East Side apartment, equipped with state of the art electronics and......

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