The Bonfire of the Vanities Page #5

Synopsis: Financial "Master of the Universe" Sherman McCoy sees his life unravel when his mistress Maria Ruskin hits a black boy with his car. When yellow journalist Peter Fallow enflames public opinion with a series of distorted tabloid articles on the accident, the case is seized upon by opportunists like Reverend Bacon and mayoral candidate D.A. Abe Weiss.
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director(s): Brian De Palma
Production: Warner Home Video
  1 win & 5 nominations.
 
IMDB:
5.5
Rotten Tomatoes:
16%
R
Year:
1990
125 min
292 Views


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A great height

from which to view the world.

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A great height from which to fall.

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Sherman, you are an absolute angel

coming all the way out here.

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I had to talk to you.

I did a very stupid thing.

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Are we going to talk about it now?

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I'm afraid we have to.

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Sherman, don't you want

a little poontang first?

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I know it has its funny side,

but it isn't funny.

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It's your own fault

for getting caught like a red herring.

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You mean red-handed.

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Can't we stop talking

about your wife now...

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and head over to our little hideaway

on 59th Street and just hide away a little?

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I think she knows.

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Of course she knows. That's not the point.

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It isn't?

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God, Sherman, you are so sweet.

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I could eat you alive if I could get

this goddamn zipper down.

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Isn't that the turnoff?

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The turnoff to Manhattan?

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I can't get over right now.

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We'll just exit and get back on.

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Exit and get back on.

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Maria!

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Where are we?

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The Bronx.

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What does that mean?

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It means we're

north of Manhattan.

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All I need to do is make a right

and find a street back.

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And there it was.

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A simple wrong turn.

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Anyone could have done it.

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A simple phone call...

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a simple wrong turn,

and you're off the track...

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moving towards a destiny

you never imagined.

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-Sherman?

-Yes, Maria.

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Where are all the white people?

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Are they going to scratch the car?

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I'm from the South

and I don't like this very much.

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Michael Cristofer

Michael Ivan Cristofer (born January 22, 1945) is an American playwright, filmmaker and actor. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony Award for Best Play for The Shadow Box in 1977. more…

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