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The Bonfire of the Vanities
Comedy, Drama
After his mistress runs over a black teen, a Wall Street hotshot sees his life unravel in the spotlight; A down-and-out reporter breaks the story and opportunists clamber to use it to their advantage.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers who enjoy cynical social satire about wealth, status, and the machinery of scandal.
- Tone
- satirical, darkly comic, bleak
- Payoff
- amusement, catharsis
- Pacing
- brisk
- Intensity
- moderate
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- class inequality, media sensationalism, privilege, racial injustice, public downfall
- Setting
- late twentieth-century urban America, affluent financial districts and crowded city neighborhoods
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