- Maria's elderly husband, Arthur Ruskin, has made his millions chartering jets that ferry Muslim pilgrims to Mecca, a business he retails as a dinner-table ethnic joke shortly before dropping dead. Muslims enter the film only as that anecdote's faceless cargo - a mass of believers whose function is to make a New York millionaire rich and laughing.
The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990)
film · 1990 film by Brian De Palma
- Director
- Brian De Palma
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Distributors
- InterCom, Netflix
- Runtime
- 126 min
- Genres
- drama film, comedy film
- Cast
- Tom Hanks, Bruce Willis, Melanie Griffith, Kim Cattrall