Movies that depict yuppies on the road to hell

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So lately I've been in this mood to revisit old movies that depict those trust fund yuppie types who are on the quick road to hell. Usually doing all the things that yuppies do fuck it all up; whether it be snorting copious amounts of coke, cheating with their bosses wife, or just chopping people up to pieces. I was thinking along the lines of Secret of My Sucess, American Psycho or After Hours, not that these are brilliant masterpieces but they hit the genre on the nail. Any ILE favorites for this weird sub-genre?

― oscar, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 05:04 (nineteen years ago)

After Hours is kinda reversed, though -- the poor polite Yuppie is plunged into the menacing wilderness of DOWNTOWN! All he wants in life is to return to the comforting bosom of, you know, above 59th Street.

― nabisco, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 05:21 (nineteen years ago)

Haha, yeah I've always thought he was brilliantly cast as that doe-eyed yuppie who wanted a little fun and now he has to deal with it. After Hours is a skewed version of the genre but I was thinking more along the lines of filsm that show those types descending into the black hole as opposed to the motivations for it.

― oscar, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 05:28 (nineteen years ago)

I kind of thought Amer. Psycho was just yuppiedom=hell, not just for Patrick.

― Abbott, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 05:32 (nineteen years ago)

National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation? With Julia Louis-Dreyfuss + hubby getting sent to hell by those bumbling Griswolds

― badg, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 05:34 (nineteen years ago)

European Vacation, too...."The Slut in the Shower."

― Abbott, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 05:35 (nineteen years ago)

If the National Lampoon movies count than so does Beethoven.

― max, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 05:38 (nineteen years ago)

That movie is HELL in itself, yuppies or not.

― Abbott, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 05:39 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, I pretty much think this is every movie released in the 80s + early 90s?

― horseshoe, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 05:40 (nineteen years ago)

http://duchovny.net/photos/roles/beethoven.jpg

― max, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 05:40 (nineteen years ago)

http://content.answers.com/main/content/img/amg/videos/drv200/v260/v26098mweal.jpg

― scott seward, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 05:41 (nineteen years ago)

kinda.

― scott seward, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 05:42 (nineteen years ago)

I hate movies like HOOK or LIAR LIAR that imply yuppie dad missing annoying-ass kids' sports games and plays is putting the whole family on the road to hell.

― Abbott, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 05:42 (nineteen years ago)

and if you mean LITERALLY going to hell:

http://www.aboutfilm.com/movies/r/rapture.jpg

― scott seward, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 05:42 (nineteen years ago)

lost in america does this for lolz

― gershy, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 05:43 (nineteen years ago)

I remember the Rapture being totally f-in sweet.

― max, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 05:44 (nineteen years ago)

I think I have posted about this on ILX before because I am OBSESSED, but on the poor defenseless (offspring of) yuppies thrust into the dangerous city which=hell tip: Adventures in Babysitting. That movie is totally reactionary.

― horseshoe, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 05:46 (nineteen years ago)

you might also want to read this:

http://www.harpercollins.com/harperimages/isbn/large/1/9780688177621.jpg

― scott seward, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 05:47 (nineteen years ago)

Adventures In Babysitting has a great after-the-credits joke!

― nickalicious, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 05:51 (nineteen years ago)

after hours is the best martin scorsese movie just edging out boxcar bertha but i guess that kind of goes without saying

― deeznuts, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 05:53 (nineteen years ago)

ok that was retarded joke but i really do think afgter hours is pretty fucking great.

― deeznuts, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 05:54 (nineteen years ago)

Doesn't every other Michael Douglas film fit this category? Wall Street, Falling Down, Diclosure, The Game... Though in many of them his more of a victim of outside forces than paving his own way to hell.

― Tuomas, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 05:56 (nineteen years ago)

Fatal Attraction also. Really, Michael Douglas is like archetype of the unfortunate yuppie.

― Tuomas, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 06:05 (nineteen years ago)

The Bonfire of Vanities, obviously.

― Tuomas, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 06:10 (nineteen years ago)

Falling Down is one of the stupidest movies I've ever seen. My friend chose it to commemorate the 4th of July.

― Abbott, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 06:13 (nineteen years ago)

tuomus HELLO, ROMANCING THE STONE?? i mean like duh

― deeznuts, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 06:14 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.duffort.org/lepouchan/data/images/the_money_pit.jpg

― Clay, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 15:02 (nineteen years ago)

you guys forgot a michael douglas klassic:

http://www.impawards.com/1989/posters/war_of_the_roses.jpg

― scott seward, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 15:12 (nineteen years ago)

The most ingenious (and funniest) is Albert Brooks' Lost in America, where they try to 'drop out' and can't.

― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 15:12 (nineteen years ago)

you might also want to read this:

http://mccoy.lib.siu.edu/illinois/images/chicagoloop.gif

― scott seward, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 15:13 (nineteen years ago)

Society, featuring Billy Warlock. Starts off as a cheesy yuppy-ish 80s guy comedy, before turning into bizzaro body-shcok horror. Very funny, and also very shocking.

― Neil S, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 15:14 (nineteen years ago)

same idea (even more hellish):

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0714525995.01._AA240_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

― scott seward, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 15:15 (nineteen years ago)

I think MD is far from a yuppie in falling down.

― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 15:15 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I was gonna say I shouldn't have listed that one, because he's supposed to be more like the White Everyman in that.

― Tuomas, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 16:31 (nineteen years ago)

A more recent entry into this subgenre:

http://www.dailyinfo.co.uk/images/cinema/changing-lanes.jpg

― Tuomas, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 16:33 (nineteen years ago)

http://img113.imageshack.us/img113/3299/somethingwildei2.jpg

― Pleasant Plains, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 16:38 (nineteen years ago)

Society is so fucking great.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 16:40 (nineteen years ago)

melanie griffiths was so cute in that movie. what happened to her?? she looks like my grandmother now. and my grandmother is 86.

― homosexual II, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 16:40 (nineteen years ago)

cocaine's a helluva drug

― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 16:59 (nineteen years ago)

James Woods is The Boost:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094783/

Lenny: I'm making money so fast over at Max's, they can't keep track of it. Everybody in town thinks I'm a firecracker. And even after all this, my own WIFE still thinks I'm a BUM!
Linda: I think you're a GENIUS. I just don't want you to feel like you're on a treadmill... having to make more and more money to pay for things we bought but don't need.
Lenny: The way things are going, the money going out won't be missed if it NEVER comes back. When you get to where we are, NOTHING can touch you.

― Mr. Que, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 17:02 (nineteen years ago)

Joel: [introducing Lenny to cocaine] Faith may move mountains; this stuff makes them FLY.

Lenny: [responding to Mark's job offer] Mark, I don't sell drugs. I'm in real estate.
Mark: I don't sell drugs, either. I'm a screenwriter. But until the ship comes in, you gotta cover the waterfront.

― Mr. Que, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 17:02 (nineteen years ago)

haha written by Ben Stein

― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 17:04 (nineteen years ago)

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