Highest-Rated Movies about 'Yuppie', Sort by Popularity

Wall Street (1987), Lost in America (1985), Reality Bites (1994), I'm Not Rappaport (1996), St. Elmo's Fire (1985), The Money Pit (1986), Truth or Consequences, N.M. (1997), Vampire's Kiss (1988) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Yuppie movies.

#1. Wall Street (1987)

Storyline: On the Wall Street of the 1980s, Bud Fox is a stockbroker full of ambition, doing whatever he can to make his way to the top. Admiring the power of the unsparing corporate raider Gordon Gekko, Fox entices Gekko into mentoring him by providing insider trading. As Fox becomes embroiled in greed and underhanded schemes, his decisions eventually threaten the livelihood of his scrupulous father. Faced with this dilemma, Fox questions his loyalties.

Plot Keywords: stockbroker, interior decorator, father, yuppie, sexy woman, tense, intense ...

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#2. Lost in America (1985)

Storyline: David and Linda Howard are successful yuppies from LA. When he gets a job disappointment, David convinces Linda that they should quit their jobs, liquidate their assets, and emulate the movie Easy Rider, spending the rest of their lives travelling around America...in a Winnebago! (This is a kind of large, luxurious mobile home which suits a 1980's yuppie more than the counterculture dropout approach of Easy Rider.) His idealized, unrealistic plans soon begin to go spectacularly wrong.—Reid Gagle

Plot Keywords: yuppie, husband, wife, quirky, amusing, los angeles, las vegas ...

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#3. Reality Bites (1994)

Storyline: In this study of Generation X manners, Lelaina, the valedictorian of her college class, camcords her friends in a mock documentary of posteducation life. Troy is her best friend, a perpetually unemployed musical slacker. Vickie is a manager at the Gap who worries about the results of an AIDS test, while Sammy has problems grappling with his sexuality. When Lelaina meets Michael, an earnest video executive who takes her homemade video to his MTV-like station, she must decide what she values--the materialism of yuppie Michael or the philosophical musings of Troy.

Plot Keywords: documentarian, yuppie, slacker, gay man, tv personality, friend, witty ...

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#4. I'm Not Rappaport (1996)

Storyline: Old Nat Moyer is a talker, a philosopher, and a troublemaker with a fanciful imagination. His companion is Midge Carter, who is half-blind, but still the super of an apartment house. When he is threatened with retirement, Nat battles on his behalf. Nat also takes on his daughter, a drug dealer, and a mugger in this appealing version of a really 'odd couple'.—Derek Picken <dpicken@email.msn.com>

Plot Keywords: old man, best friend, daughter, yuppie, drug dealer, artist, charming ...

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#5. St. Elmo's Fire (1985)

Storyline: Seven friends - Alec, Billy, Jules, Kevin, Kirby, Leslie and Wendy - are trying to navigate through life and their friendships following college graduation. Alec, who aspires to political life, has just shown his true colors by changing his allegiance from Democrat to Republican, which freaks out girlfriend Leslie, who he wants to marry. Budding architect Leslie, on the other hand, has an independent streak. She believes she has to make a name for herself to find out who she is before she can truly commit to another person in marriage. But Leslie and Alec have decided to live together. Because Leslie refuses to marry Alec, he believes that justifies certain behavior. Kirby, who wants to become a lawyer and who pays for his schooling by working as a waiter at their local hangout called St. Elmo's Bar, and struggling writer Kevin are currently roommates. They are on opposite extremes of the romance spectrum. Kirby has just reconnected with Dale Biberman, a slightly older woman he knew ...

Plot Keywords: waiter, writer, party girl, yuppie, architect, college graduate, amusing ...

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#6. The Money Pit (1986)

Storyline: Walter Fielding and Anna Crowley have to start looking for a new house- but there's not much they can afford! This soon changes when they meet a lonely old con artist who sells them a beautiful mansion at a ridiculously low price. Only there's a catch. The second they move into the house it falls apart, starting with the stairway collapsing to the bathtub falling through the floor to eventually the chimney falling into the house! Finally, they have to renovate the house before the frame collapses but the renovations also prove to be a disaster.

Plot Keywords: lawyer, girlfriend, con man, contractor, yuppie, ex-husband, madcap ...

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#7. Truth or Consequences, N.M. (1997)

Storyline: A drug deal goes wrong causing a foursome, led by a lunatic killer, to go on the run. A couple in a recreational vehicle are initially kidnapped, but soon the male hostage is emulating his kidnappers and wants to stay involved in the chase.—John Sacksteder <jsackste@bellsouth.net>

Plot Keywords: ex-convict, mob boss, hit man, psychopath, undercover cop, yuppie, intense ...

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#8. Vampire's Kiss (1988)

Storyline: A publishing executive is visited and bitten by a woman and starts exhibiting erratic behavior. He pushes his secretary to extremes as he tries to come to terms with his delusions. The woman continues to visit and as his madness deepens, it begins to look as if some of the events he's experiencing may be hallucinations.

Plot Keywords: literary agent, receptionist, beautiful woman, therapist, yuppie, boss, outlandish ...

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#9. The Night We Never Met (1993)

Storyline: Sam has a problem with his roommates: they are disgusting, and don't seem to share his views on responsibility, privacy, and basic hygiene. Such is his discomfort with his living arrangements that he agrees to share the occupancy of another flat: he gets two nights a week, the owner (a sleazy frat-boy yuppie named Brian, soon to be married) and Ellen (a would-be painter seeking relief from her boring marriage) each get their separate nights in the flat. Things go extremely well until Sam and Brian swap nights without telling Ellen, who attributes the "nice" things that happen around the place to the slob Brian, while berating the responsible Sam for his hedonistic lifestyle.—Murray Chapman <muzzle@cs.uq.oz.au>

Plot Keywords: chef, painter, roommate, fiancé, yuppie, amusing, witty ...

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#10. Curly Sue (1991)

Storyline: Bill Dancer and his young companion Curly Sue are the classic homeless folks with hearts of gold. Their scams are aimed not at turning a profit, but at getting enough to eat. When they scam the rich and beautiful Grey Ellison into believing she backed her Mercedes into Bill, they're only hoping for a free meal. But Grey is touched, and over the objections of her snotty fiance, insist on putting the two up for the night. As they get to know each other, Bill becomes convinced that this is where Curly Sue belongs - in a home, cared for by someone that can give her the advantages that his homeless, nomadic existence lacks. He plans to leave the young girl in the care of Grey and take off.... but Curly Sue has other ideas!

Plot Keywords: drifter, orphan, lawyer, boyfriend, yuppie, con artist, mushy ...

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#11. Duplex (2003)

Storyline: Alex Rose and Nancy Kendricks are a young couple who believe they have found their perfect home to start a family in. There is just one problem. An elderly tenant is staying upstairs and won't move out. Alex and Nancy desperately try everything to convince her to leave, but she refuses to move. Soon, their dream home becomes their home of nightmares.

Plot Keywords: girlfriend, yuppie, old woman, writer, hit man, boyfriend, amusing ...

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#12. Buying the Cow (2001)

Storyline: David Collins is a commmitment-shy Los Angeles yuppie whose girlfriend of many years, advertising executive Sarah, gives him an ultimatum: commit or get out. David has two months to decide if he wants to stay with Sarah as she leaves town for a job in New York. Following the advice from his more outgoing friends, David hits the dating scene as he tries to find his one and only soul mate, a mysterious woman he sees again and again, but always gets away before he can talk to her.—Matthew Patay

Plot Keywords: yuppie, advertising executive, girlfriend, friend, mysterious girl, amusing, crafty ...

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#13. The New Age (1994)

Storyline: A 'grown-up' film about adult relationships, and the vapidness of new ageism. Peter and Katherine Witner are well-off, SoCal yuppies. They're intelligent, and have great jobs but no centre - no real foundation which gives messaging to their lives - just very hedonistic, and emotionally immature. When they both lose their jobs, they begin to have sex with various partners. As a solution to their situation; they decide to start a business, together, and in order to find meaning to their empty lives, they turn to various new age gurus, and other such groups. Eventually, they emotionally hit rock bottom, and must make some hard decisions.—Reid Gagle

Plot Keywords: agent, guru, husband, wife, shop owner, yuppie, brash ...

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#15. Body Shots (1999)

Storyline: Four hip women get ready for Friday night in LA: they dress, talk about sex, and hit a bar before meeting four men at a rave. The men prepare by talking about sex and drinking. Rick and Jean, two attorneys, have set up the evening, connect at the club, and have a good time. The pairings of Shawn, Trent, Whitney and Emma are more serendipitous. But it's Mike and Sara's night that has serious repercussions: he's an NFL player, loud, swaggering; she's a party animal who drinks a lot early that evening. At 4 AM, she appears at Jean's, disheveled and bruised, saying Mike raped her. Arrested, he says he's innocent, and in flashbacks we see both sides of the story.—<jhailey@hotmail.com>

Plot Keywords: football player, drunk, young woman, bartender, yuppie, doctor, spirited ...

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