The Bonfire of the Vanities is a 1990 American satirical black comedy film directed and produced by Brian De Palma and starring Tom Hanks, Bruce Willis, Melanie Griffith, Kim Cattrall, and Morgan Freeman. The screenplay, written by Michael Cristofer, was adapted from the bestselling 1987 novel of the same name by Tom Wolfe.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bonfire_of_the_Vanities_(film)
I started to watch this, going in blind, and wondered if this is what the book is like. I remember the book was really popular in the past. Your notes cleared that up, thanks.
Tangerine Flake Streamline Baby, Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, and The Right Stuff are all better than Bonfire imo, Wolfe is better as a journalist than a novelist.
He was a reactionary at the core, and it comes out a little too much in his novels for my taste.
Bruce Willis was a terrible casting decision.