The Bonfire of the Vanities

…a big-budget adaptation (1990) of The Bonfire of the Vanities, Tom Wolfe’s best-selling novel of greed and corruption. However, the film was unable to effectively convey the novel’s satire, and the miscasting of Tom Hanks, Melanie Griffith, and—most notably—Bruce Willis added to its problems. In the end, The Bonfire of…

…Bonfire of the Vanities (1987; film 1990), a sprawling novel about urban greed and corruption, and A Man in Full (1998), a colorful panoramic depiction of contemporary Atlanta. Wolfe’s Hooking Up (2000) is a collection of fiction and essays, all previously published except for “My Three Stooges,” a scandalous diatribe…

…films from this period include The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990), Pacific Heights (1990), A Stranger Among Us (1992), Born Yesterday (1993), and Mulholland Falls (1996).