It's a little known fact that this film is actually a docu-drama of nic cage's life in the late 80's. The film-makers decided to fictionalize the character and place him in a Wall-street setting, rather than the film-making industry because they felt audiences weren't ready to accept such an extreme depiction of the true nic cage...yet.
Watched a bit of this last night; forgot how deeply weird Cage's performance is, willful and unimpeded by common sense. Cage makes decisions almost no other actor would dare--maybe Depp, at some point, or Sam Rockwell (at any moment). It's a better picture than I remembered it to be, the most gleeful vivisection of '80s-'90s creep-dom one could hope for. Makes "Wall St." look like a footnote to the era.