Product: Other People's Money [VHS] (1991)
Rating: 4.0
Some good points, some bad points
This is a later, not excessively inferior, version of "Wall Street", with many of the same issues, themes, and trappings. But that similarity is hard to see when Danny DeVito is in the Michael Douglas role. From this casting, you can see that the film just can't take itself too seriously. If you can get over the curious if not crazy relationship between DeVito and Penelope Miller, you can find some nicely done scenes. Of special note is the 'final shootout' scene, staging DeVito as the hungry investment banker facing down the aging chairman of the board, Gregory Peck, in the battle over the soul of New England Wire and Cable. DeVito and Peck offer nice insights into the moral struggle that underscores any business.