What are your favorite Wall-street themed movies?

joe_bradley said:
John,

I love that particular dialog you just posted.
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Just came across this one on Wilmott. This is straight out from Boiler room. Hilarious
Boiler Room wasn't a bad film! It was an awesome film:

Jim Young: Okay, before we get started, I have one question, has anyone here passed a Series Seven exam?
Man: (raises his hand) I have a Series Seven license.
Jim: Good for you. You can get up too.
Man: What? Why?
Jim: We don't hire brokers here, we train new ones. That's it Skippy - pack your shit, let's go. (the man leaves) Okay, here's the deal, I'm not here to waste your time. Okay, I certainly hope you're not here to waste mine, so I'm gonna keep this short. Become an employee of this firm, you will make your first million within 3 years. Okay, I'm gonna repeat that, you will make a million dollars, within three years of your first day of employment at J.T. Marlin. There's no question as to whether you become a millionaire working here. The only question is, how many times over. You think I'm joking....I am not joking. I am a millionaire. It's a weird thing to hear, right? Lemme tell ya, its a weird thing to say: I am a fucking millionaire. And guess how old I am...27, you know what that makes me here? A fucking senior citizen. This firm is entirely comprised of people your age, not mine. Lucky for me, I happen to be very fucking good at my job or I'd be out of one. You guys are the new blood. You are the future swinging dicks of this firm. Now you all look money hungry and that's good. Anybody who tells you that money is the root of all evil, doesn't fucking have any. They say money can't buy happiness. Look at the fucking smile on my face! Ear to ear baby! You want details, fine. I drive a Ferrari 355 Cabriolet. What's up? (slides keys across long table) I have a ridiculous house at the South Fork. I have every toy you could possibly imagine. And best of all, I am liquid. So now you know what's possible, let me tell you what's required. You are required to work your fucking ass off at this firm. We want winners here, not pikers. A piker walks at the bell. A Piker asks how much vacation time you get in the first year. Vacation time? People come to work at this firm for one reason, to become filthy rich, that's it. We're not here to make friends, we're not saving the fucking manatees here guys. You want vacation time, go teach third grade at a public school.
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hello people, when did these movies release ??
wall street is i guess not released, but boiler room, after what Andy posted, is a MUST WATCH
 
Jack Campbell (Nicolas Cage) is the quintessential Wall Street shark, scoring killer deals by day and shallow escort sex by night. His round-the-clock routine of empty luxuries is disturbed one lonely Christmas Eve when a gun-packing punk (Don Cheadle)--perhaps an angel of mercy--responds to an altruistic gesture from Jack by giving him "a glimpse" of the life he could have had. Could have, that is, if he had married the girlfriend (Téa Leoni) he'd abandoned 13 years earlier, raised two adorable children, worked in his father-in-law's retail tire outlet, and lived happily ever after in suburban New Jersey. Thrust into this "glimpse" of the path not taken, Jack's a single-malt man in a lite-brew world, wondering if he'll ever return to his "better" life of callous wealth and solitude--or if he even wants to.
 
wall street shmall street...

has anyone watched Pi?
Pi (1998)

honestly, i dare anybody to top that one. i would even volunteer to bring it to class/group gathering to watch.
 
Dmytro said:
has anyone watched Pi?
Pi (1998)

honestly, i dare anybody to top that one. i would even volunteer to bring it to class/group gathering to watch.
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It seems to be a popular movie among the math circle. My undergrad math prof forced me to watch that and I found it enjoyable. I also realized that I didn't want to become the kind of mathematician that gone mad, running around.

By the way, I just watched both Wall Street and Enron movies in Blu-ray. It was even more mind blowing than seeing it in standard DVD.
 
"The Sting" (1973, with Paul Newman and Robert Redford) is absent from the list. Though not about finance or the Street, careful viewing will be educational. Particularly for those who want to put together "the big con." It's a classic film and a work of art; and though I must have seen it twenty or thirty times, I'm always happy to watch it again.
 
I've always been partial to Rogue Trader. It's always amazing to me to see the massive failure of management and internal audit procedures in that movie.
 
Does "The Pursuit of Happyness" count?
Or is it not wall-streety enough..
 
I do like Wall Street. The "greed is good" speech is so powerful; unfortunately it's often taken out of context and only that one part of it is quoted.

I also do like Family Man. Reminds me of long lost lovers.

But my #1 so far is definitely Rogue Trader. Is there any other movie that really zooms in and focuses on the pressure/chaos/rollercoaster ride that is a trading floor? And again, it's always astounding to watch Nick Leeson make it through hoop after hoop after hoop until the very end.
 
There is a documentary coming out about the floor traders at the Chicago Futures Exchange.
The link to the DVD (coming out Nov 30) Amazon.com: Floored: Documentary, James Allen Smith: Movies more
Here is a review on NYT http://movies.nytimes.com/2010/05/07/movies/07floored.html

As electronic trading spreads, and traders work in front of lifeless, antiseptic monitors, a generation of outcry traders finds itself increasingly obsolete. (By around 2008, only hog and cattle futures were trading primarily the old-fashioned way.)

Many younger traders, of course, are hip to the new technology, but “Floored” isn’t interested in them; it’s the old-schoolers on the way out who are its focus. The stories of this dying breed are fascinating.

Among them is that of Mike Walsh, a foulmouthed, barrel-chested floor trader with a big house and a taste for hunting big game in Africa; Kenny Ford, a gruff 51-year-old vigorously but vainly opposed to e-trading; and Jeff Ansani, who took a colossal loss in one trade in 1994 and is now a mere clerk and divorced father encouraging a son to enter the market but to learn computers too.

 
I was at the New York Film Festival to watch the premiere of 'Inside Job', and was pleasantly surprised at the depth of the movie.

The best part for me was not Wall Street related -- how people in academia is interrelated with the financial crisis (i.e. Mishkin's endorsement of Iceland). I'll ask around if it's possible to get finance professors to be a 'consultant' and endorse a particular investment strategy.

I should be more careful with my donations, seems like it. I highly recommend the documentary.
 
Pi (and generally anything by Aronofsky) was great!

One of my favorites, tho not a "Wall Street" movie is Glengarry Glen Ross - Arguably the best sales movie ever.

Baldwin's speech is pure awesomeness!

Set of steak knives anyone? :D

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Dmytro said:
wall street shmall street...

has anyone watched Pi?
Pi (1998)

honestly, i dare anybody to top that one. i would even volunteer to bring it to class/group gathering to watch.
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Andy Nguyen said:
There is a documentary coming out about the floor traders at the Chicago Futures Exchange.
The link to the DVD (coming out Nov 30) Amazon.com: Floored: Documentary, James Allen Smith: Movies more
Here is a review on NYT http://movies.nytimes.com/2010/05/07/movies/07floored.html

As electronic trading spreads, and traders work in front of lifeless, antiseptic monitors, a generation of outcry traders finds itself increasingly obsolete. (By around 2008, only hog and cattle futures were trading primarily the old-fashioned way.)

Many younger traders, of course, are hip to the new technology, but “Floored” isn’t interested in them; it’s the old-schoolers on the way out who are its focus. The stories of this dying breed are fascinating.

Among them is that of Mike Walsh, a foulmouthed, barrel-chested floor trader with a big house and a taste for hunting big game in Africa; Kenny Ford, a gruff 51-year-old vigorously but vainly opposed to e-trading; and Jeff Ansani, who took a colossal loss in one trade in 1994 and is now a mere clerk and divorced father encouraging a son to enter the market but to learn computers too.
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Not sure if anyone has found it but here it is anyway. If you want to watch special feature sorry. If you want to watch the floored doc here you go

FLOORED Episode 1 | Babelgum
 
Al Pacino heads for 'Arbitrage'

Al Pacino has set financial thriller "Arbitrage" as his next film. He'll star opposite Eva Green and Susan Sarandon.

"Arbitrage" stars Pacino as a hedge fund magnate who is in over his head and desperate to complete the sale of his trading empire to a major bank before his fraud is revealed. But an unexpected, bloody error forces him to turn to the most unlikely corner for help.

Foreign buyers have shown keen interest in financial dramas in the wake of the economic collapse of late 2008. Myriad Pictures has seen brisk sales for Kevin Spacey-Jeremy Irons-Zachary Quinto topliner "Margin Call," which will also be at AFM.

Al Pacino heads for 'Arbitrage' - Entertainment News, Film News, Media - Variety
 

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