'The Bonfire of the Vanities' is a notorious flop, grossing $15 million on a $47 million budget. Based on Tom Wolfe's decade defining 1987 novel of moral rot in New York, and directed by Brian De Palma. Tom Hank's is miscast as a millionaire Wall Street hedge fund manager whose car accidently runs over a black man in the Bronx while avoiding a potential robbery. Bruce Willis is a tabloid reporter who latches onto the story in an attempt to relaunch his failing career. Nothing lands here, it's plodding, fails to reach the depth it aspires for. While the source material is well regarded, the movie feels pretty trashy. Melanie Griffith's southern bell freeloader seems a relic of another time. This really is a bad, pretentious movie. *
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