charlie sheen? and this is michael douglas and he plays a character who is by now, everybody remembers his name, gordon gecko. of i forget what kind of company, i think it was a financial business. and he was doing insider trading. so, he was breaking the law. man who just got out of college from a working-class family, his father played by charlie sheen was a worker. he comes from that generation. theis very excited to have salary that pays for a great apartment, he gets a really beautiful girlfriend, and he becomes friends with gordon. so they develop this mentor and protege relationship, but then he figures out what happens. and so, bud is in this dilemma. do i report my boss because if he goes down, i go down. it also involved his father, i forget how. in the end, spoiler alert, bud does make the right call. the thing is, even though the movie had the right message, it had a good message, most people who watched wall street, they were there in the movie theater ing the lifestyle of these young i