Bryan Gordon's Academy Award-winning "Ray's Male Heterosexual Dance Hall" is part indictment of the Reagan-era business world, part boundary-pusher. A young man, recently laid off, attends a dance and learns that finding a job is all about which people you know. Much like "Wall Street" (which also won an Oscar that night), it shows that the corporate world benefits only a small number of people. And it does this by showing execs dancing with each other! As in "Dirty Dancing" (which also won an Oscar that night), it depicts the characters having the time of their lives. Nobody puts Gordon Gekko types in a corner!
To us in the 21st century, the greed that dominated the '80s might seem like a distant memory. But it was all too real at the time, and the deregulation of Wall Street led to the economic collapse of 2007-2008. The only cast members whom I recognized were Lyman Ward (the dad in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off"), Fred Willard (frequent co-star of Christopher Guest's movies and occasionally appearing as Phil's dad on "Modern Family") and Robert Wuhl (1989's "Batman").
All in all, good short.
To us in the 21st century, the greed that dominated the '80s might seem like a distant memory. But it was all too real at the time, and the deregulation of Wall Street led to the economic collapse of 2007-2008. The only cast members whom I recognized were Lyman Ward (the dad in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off"), Fred Willard (frequent co-star of Christopher Guest's movies and occasionally appearing as Phil's dad on "Modern Family") and Robert Wuhl (1989's "Batman").
All in all, good short.