Finance in Film
Following is a partial list of movies either that have
heroes (or villains) who are financiers or that contain at least a few key
scenes that are motivated by finance topics:
- Other People’s
Money (THE classic finance movie! – Danny Devito, Gregory Peck, Penelope
Ann Miller)
- Wall
Street (“Greed is Good!” speech - Charlie Sheen, Michael Douglas)
- Trading
Places (Dan Ackroyd, Eddie Murphy)
- Bonfire
of the Vanities (Tom Hanks, Bruce Willis)
- Noble
House (Pierce Brosnan, Deborah Raffin)
- A
Perfect Murder (Michael Douglas, Gwyneth Paltrow)
- The
Game (Michael Douglas, Sean Penn)
- It’s a
Wonderful Life (classic description of how banking works – Jimmy Stewart,
Donna Reed)
- The
following are two movies that I haven’t seen yet:
- Quicksilver
(Kevin Bacon)
- Boilerroom
(?)