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Released
1987 · FILM

Wall Street

A hungry rookie stockbroker hustles to win over a legendary Wall Street shark, risking illegal insider tips and his own integrity for the chance at wealth—and discovers that climbing the financial ladder may cost him everything.

“Every dream has a price.”

Directed by
Oliver Stone, Oliver Stone Nm0000231
Written by
Stanley Weiser, Oliver Stone
Rated
MPA · R
Runtime
126 min
CrimeDrama
Streaming on
  • Paramount+

Synopsis

A young and impatient stockbroker is determined to rise to the top, even if it means using illegal inside information obtained through a ruthless and greedy corporate raider, who takes the young man under his wing.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 30

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Claire SimpsonShot by Robert RichardsonScored by Stewart CopelandDesigned by Stephen Hendrickson

Box Office

1987 · Box office

✅ Made its money back — grossed 2.9× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$43.9M

Budget$15.0M
Worldwide gross$43.9M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $43.8M — 100% of worldwide · International: $52K (0%)

Opening weekend: $4.1M — 9% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $5.4M — 12% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 730 theaters

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Companies

Production20th Century Fox, Amercent Films, American Entertainment Partners L.P.

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