The Bonfire of the Vanities

Barbaric and brazen, Brian De Palma's "The Bonfire of the Vanities" unfurls as a scathing satire of 1980s New York, where a Wall Street tycoon's affair ignites a racial powder keg. His mistress's hit-and-run accident sets in motion a media frenzy, with an opportunistic journalist pushing the story to expose the city's festering social divides. Opportunists and predators circle, turning a personal tragedy into a public spectacle, a toxic cocktail of greed, prejudice, and media manipulation that smears the city's already tarnished soul.