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Title: The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Leonardo DiCaprio | ... | Jordan Belfort | |
| Jonah Hill | ... | Donnie Azoff | |
| Margot Robbie | ... | Naomi Lapaglia | |
| Matthew McConaughey | ... | Mark Hanna | |
| Kyle Chandler | ... | Agent Patrick Denham | |
| Rob Reiner | ... | Max Belfort | |
| Jon Bernthal | ... | Brad | |
| Jon Favreau | ... | Manny Riskin | |
| Jean Dujardin | ... | Jean Jacques Saurel | |
| Joanna Lumley | ... | Aunt Emma | |
| Cristin Milioti | ... | Teresa Petrillo | |
| Christine Ebersole | ... | Leah Belfort | |
| Shea Whigham | ... | Captain Ted Beecham | |
| Katarina Cas | ... | Chantalle | |
| P.J. Byrne | ... | Nicky Koskoff ('Rugrat') | |
In the early 1990s, Jordan Belfort teamed with his partner Donny Azoff and started brokerage firm Stratton Oakmont. Their company quickly grows from a staff of 20 to a staff of more than 250 and their status in the trading community and Wall Street grows exponentially. So much that companies file their initial public offerings through them. As their status grows, so do the amount of substances they abuse, and so do their lies. They draw attention like no other, throwing lavish parties for their staff when they hit the jackpot on high trades. That ultimately leads to Belfort featured on the cover of Forbes Magazine, being called "The Wolf Of Wall St.". With the FBI onto Belfort's trading schemes, he devises new ways to cover his tracks and watch his fortune grow. Belfort ultimately comes up with a scheme to stash their cash in a European bank. But with the FBI watching him like a hawk, how long will Belfort and Azoff be able to maintain their elaborate wealth and luxurious lifestyles? Written by halo1k
Yes, Scorsese has always entertained us so well with abberant types, from mobsters to street criminals to boiler room stock brokers, all dealing death or financial destruction 24/7. But, do any of them bear even a faint resemblance to what really happened, and did those people actually behave that way? Regarding this film, I worked on Wall Street during that time, and even though we had heard of Jordan Belfort's firm, it was totally discounted as a boiler room and had no Street cred at all, just a terrible rep as sleazebag junk. It was no more than a side story to the real Wall Street, as those boiler room types were the lowest level of that era's greed-is-good WS slicksters.
But, the movie.....could any human superman take the amount of drugs and unprotected sex shown in this story and even function, let alone at a high continuous level and not have a fatal heart attack? None that I have known or seen, and I have seen a lot. But, Dicaprio as Belfort was a marvelous choice for this outsized role, and he played it to the hilt as never before, with Jonah Hill as his sidekick comic relief, and Matthew Macconaughey a great choice for Belfort's oddball, probably whacked out(off?)mentor, and Bob DeNiro in a short mobster spot.
It was such fast action that the 3 hours went by quickly, with not a dull moment in it. I enjoyed the fantasy ride that Disney could not have done better, but I could never get past the fact that it was 99% dramatized fiction, done to sell tickets(greed is good!) but not to enlighten us at all about the real Wall Street of that era.