The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
The Wolf of Wall Street is a 2013 crime movie directed by Martin Scorsese, with a running time of 3h. It stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill and Margot Robbie.
Jordan Belfort talks straight to the camera about how he built Stratton Oakmont into a boiler room that minted millionaires and torched its clients. The pitch is intoxicating: penny stocks, phone banks full of hungry salesmen, and a lifestyle of yachts, drugs, and casual cruelty. Leonardo DiCaprio plays Belfort as a gifted huckster who cannot stop; Jonah Hill is his unhinged partner Donnie, Margot Robbie his wife Naomi, and Matthew McConaughey the mentor who lays out the rules. Martin Scorsese directs at a manic, three-hour sprint, daring you to laugh at excess you know is rotten.
Quick answers
What is The Wolf of Wall Street about?
Jordan Belfort talks straight to the camera about how he built Stratton Oakmont into a boiler room that minted millionaires and torched its clients. The pitch is intoxicating: penny stocks, phone banks full of hungry salesmen, and a lifestyle of yachts, drugs, and casual cruelty. Leonardo DiCaprio plays Belfort as a gifted huckster who cannot stop; Jonah Hill is his unhinged partner Donnie, Margot Robbie his wife Naomi, and Matthew McConaughey the mentor who lays out the rules. Martin Scorsese directs at a manic, three-hour sprint, daring you to laugh at excess you know is rotten.
When was The Wolf of Wall Street released?
The Wolf of Wall Street was released on 25 December 2013.
How long is The Wolf of Wall Street?
The Wolf of Wall Street runs 3h.
Who made The Wolf of Wall Street?
The Wolf of Wall Street was directed by Martin Scorsese.
Where can I watch The Wolf of Wall Street?
The Wolf of Wall Street is available on AMC+, Paramount Plus, Paramount+ (Via Amazon Prime), Philo, Prime Video and YouTube TV.
Where to watch The Wolf of Wall Street
Stream: AMC+, Paramount Plus, Paramount+ (Via Amazon Prime), Philo, Prime Video, YouTube TV
Rent: Amazon, AppleTV, Fandango at Home
Buy: Fandango at Home
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Cast
- Leonardo DiCaprio as Jordan Belfort
- Jonah Hill as Donnie Azoff
- Margot Robbie as Naomi Lapaglia
- Matthew McConaughey as Mark Hanna
- Kyle Chandler as Agent Patrick Denham
- Rob Reiner as Max Belfort
- Jon Bernthal as Brad
- Jon Favreau as Manny Riskin
- Jean Dujardin as Jean Jacques Saurel
- Joanna Lumley as Aunt Emma
- Cristin Milioti as Teresa Petrillo
- Christine Ebersole as Leah Belfort
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A few thoughts on The Wolf of Wall Street
For the same satirical thrill of American greed, Grand Theft Auto V skewers wealth and hustle with gleeful nastiness. Get Rich or Die Tryin’ channels the from-nothing hunger that drives Belfort, and if you want the long arc of a criminal empire's rise and rot, The Godfather delivers it in prose.
True stories of financial schemes that actually happened
The Wolf of Wall Street turns Jordan Belfort's real fraud into a straight-to-camera confession. These dig into true money scandals told with the same insider access: The Big Short tracks the 2008 mortgage collapse, The Wizard of Lies sits with Bernie Madoff's unraveling Ponzi scheme, War Dogs follows two hustlers gaming a Pentagon contract, The Laundromat traces dirty money through shell companies, and Billions stages the same hedge-fund power games.
Gangster epics about climbing to the top and paying for it
Jordan Belfort's rise from hustler to fraud kingpin runs on the same fuel as these organized-crime sagas: raw ambition and a code that curdles. Casino and American Gangster chart empires built on hustle and violence, Donnie Brasco and The Godfather trace loyalty bought and burned, Once Upon a Time in America spans decades of consequence, and The Alto Knights returns to the same postwar underworld.
Corporate predators played for dark comedy
Belfort's motivational-speech charisma and total lack of shame put The Wolf of Wall Street in the same lineage as these portraits of greed-is-good excess. American Psycho skewers the same yuppie bravado as pure satire, Wall Street gave Gordon Gekko the speech Belfort could have written, Succession turns boardroom cruelty into black comedy, and The Apprentice shows a young dealmaker learning ruthlessness has its own charm.