Most underrated Wall St movie

We’ve all heard of The Wolf of Wall Street, Wall Street, and American Psycho, but there is a movie I just saw that is less prominent when thinking of Wall Street movies called Working Girl.

The title sounds stupid, but this was a suspenseful finance movie and actually stars Harrison Ford.

What happens is a girl who starts out as a stockbrokers secretary gains an assistant job to an MD. She gets to house-sit the office while her MD is out traveling. The MD steals her idea so she ends up pretending to be a huge investment banker and creates her own M&A deal. She puts forward the merger deal with a huge executive (Harrison Ford).

Then she ends up getting in bed with the executive, and realizes that the executive she slept with is actually her bosses boyfriend. From there it gets crazy.

Anyway it’s a really crazy movie and was nominated for several Oscars. However I think it’s extremely underrated in the finance community.

 

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BillMurray:
Thanks for your input. I think a lot of the reasons that these movies are underrated is because their production may not be as good or they are viewed as a bit "unsophisticated" or "silly" by the overall community.

Then you have movies like "Assault on Wall St" which was just plain trash

The production's quite good and it stars a pretty good looking, young Nicolas Cage and a hot Tea Leoni. It's just it doesn't make a lot of sense to me, because in the beginning he does a very good, moral, and stand-up gentleman deed, but then he needs a lesson taught by a straight up violent criminal... Like what?

The rest of the movie does have a very good message in it, though. As well it features an M&A deal which must've been rocket science at the time of its release.

 
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Margin Call definitely, great cast and in my opinion, one of the best dramatizations of finance/banking. Don't think the movie was underrated per say since critics liked it but it wasn't wildly marketed to the general public. Still remains my top "finance" movie.

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"Working Girl" is a classic... "I have a head for business and a bod for sin" - such a great line!

However, the assistant [Melanie Griffith, mother of "50 Shades of" Dakota Johnson] does not steal the MD's meeting notes. The assistant actually approaches the MD with her idea for the deal and the MD [played by Sigourney Weaver] steals her idea and tries to pass it off as her own.

The cast of Working Girl is great. As you said Harrison Ford is in it. A very good-looking pre-Trump-playing Alec Baldwin plays the assistant's boyfriend. And the awesome Joan Cusack plays one of her besties.

Another under-rated Wall Street movie with an actual cameo by The Donald, is "The Associate" with Whoopi Goldberg. She's an IB associate who sees herself getting screwed over by the white boys' club, so she has a make-up effects friend turn her into a white man, beating the Wayan Brothers' complexion-switching flick "White Chicks" by about a decade and with a helluva better story. Also another excellent cast with Dianne Wiest, Eli Wallach, Tim Daly, and Bebe Neuwirth.

 
ironman32:
Can't believe no one has mentioned it, but Boiler Room (depends if you call it underrated). Good to pair with WoWS, same story different takes.

Boiler Room was mad homo.

  1. Bunch of faggie white guys acting hard. One does a line of coke and drops a N bomb in the first 10 min.

  2. Rap music is constantly playing in the background of this movie full of white guys. The only diversity is a fat black female secretary?! Seth quotes the late Notorious B.I.G. WTF! Christopher Wallace must be rolling in his grave.

  3. Ben Afflec is bragging about all his money. He dumps it on a car and has a huge house with nothing in it. Then one scene shows a bunch of ballers are watching Wall Street on a Friday night. Now das gangsta!?

  4. One of the bar scenes they are playing dice. I think this is the only time in history white boys played ghetto dice.

  5. The white jew in the movie calls his white coworkers nigga-rich.

  6. The two white jews are fighting over the fat black secretary. Since when do white guys chase the brown chocolate?

And so forth. This movie was just bad all around.

 
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And so forth. This movie was just bad all around.

So bad that it’s good. Ben affleck’s homage Glengarry Glen Ross speech was pretty solid, he had some gold lines.

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No love for the Big Short? You guys all deserve to get Eismaned.

Except for those who mentioned Trading Places, that one is great

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I agree with this. And there’s a lot of subtle detail in it that alludes to other stuff that happened.

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