Product Review

Bonfire of the Vanities (DVD)

Academy Award winner Tom Hanks stars with Bruce Willis, Melanie Griffithand Morgan Freeman in the film adaptation of Tom Wolfe's best-sellingnovel that revels in the excesses of the New York of the '80s, TheBonfire of the Vanities.Take one Wall Street tycoon, his Fifth Avenue mistress, a reporterhungry for fame and a wrong turn in The Bronx... Wall Street tycoonSherman McCoy (Hanks) takes that wrong turn in his Mercedes, gets lostin The Bronx--and runs down a poor Black teenager. Rather than stop in adangerous neighborhood, he leaves the boy to die. But this act of callowbrutality begins a chain of events that will rock the global center ofCapitalism and shatter the self-indulgent, greedy life that ShermanMcCoy had believed was untouchable.