Financial "Master of the Universe" Sherman McCoy sees his life unravel when his mistress Maria Ruskin hits a Black boy with his car. When journalist Peter Fallow enflames public opinion with a series of distorted tabloid articles on the accident, the case is seized upon by opportunists like Reverend Bacon and mayoral candidate D.A. Abe Weiss.

Director: Brian De Palma

Writer: Michael Cristofer, Tom Wolfe

Actors: Tom Hanks, Bruce Willis, Melanie Griffith

Production: N/A