Brian De Palma's adaptation of Tom Wolfe's razor-sharp satire of 1980s New York became a textbook case of Hollywood miscasting and creative cowardice. Tom Hanks, Bruce Willis, and Melanie Griffith were woefully wrong for their roles, and the film's failure became the subject of a bestselling making-of book.

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