The Wolf of Wall Street is a 2013 American biographical black comedy crime film directed by Martin Scorsese. It is based on the 2007 memoir of the same name by Jordan Belfort. Leonardo DiCaprio stars as Belfort, with Jonah Hill as his business partner and friend, Donnie Azoff, Margot Robbie as his wife, Naomi Lapaglia, and Kyle Chandler as FBI agent Patrick Denham. The film was a major commercial success, grossing USD 392 million worldwide during its theatrical run. It caused controversy with its morally ambiguous depiction of events, explicit sexual content, extreme profanity, depiction of hard drug use, and its use of animals during production.
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The Wolf of Wall Street is a 2013 American biographical black comedy crime film directed by Martin Scorsese and written by Terence Winter. It is based on the 2007 memoir of the same name by Jordan Belfort. Leonardo DiCaprio stars as Belfort, with Jonah Hill as his business partner and friend, Donnie Azoff, Margot Robbie as his wife, Naomi Lapaglia, and Kyle Chandler as FBI agent Patrick Denham. The film was a major commercial success, grossing USD 392 million worldwide during its theatrical run. It was nominated for several awards, including five at the 86th Academy Awards ceremony: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor. It caused controversy with its morally ambiguous depiction of events, explicit sexual content, extreme profanity, depiction of hard drug use, and its use of animals during production. It set a Guinness World Record for the most instances of swearing in a film. It has also been criticized by many as glorifying the infamous individuals and immoral behaviors portrayed in the film. It was released in the United States on December 25, 2013 by Paramount Pictures, and was the first to be released entirely through digital distribution. It received generally positive reviews from critics, with praise for the direction, the comedic performances of Di Caprio and Hill, the screenplay, and the fast-paced and consistent humor. It also won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Musical or Comedy at the 71st Golden Globe Awards, where the film was also nominated for Best Picture – musical or Comedy.
The movie was released on December 17, 2013, in the U.S., and on December 26, 2013 in the UK, and December 27, 2014 in Australia, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. It premiered in New York City on December 16, 2013 and in London on December 19, 2013. It had a limited release on December 20, 2013 on Blu-ray, DVD, and Blu-Ray, and on January 6, 2014 on DVD, Blu- ray, Blu and DVD in the US, and in Canada and Australia on January 7, 2014. It will also be released in Australia and the UK on January 8, 2014, and January 17, 2015 on DVD and DVD. It follows Belfort’s career as a stockbroker and how his firm, Stratton Oakmont, engaged in rampant corruption and fraud on Wall Street, which ultimately led to his downfall. Jordan loses his job following Black Monday, the largest one-day stock market drop in history, and takes a job at a boiler room brokerage firm on Long Island that specializes in penny stocks. Jordan’s tactics and salesmanship largely contribute to the success of his pump and dump scheme, which involves inflating the price of a stock through issuing misleading, positive statements in order to sell it at an artificially augmented price. Jordan becomes immensely successful and slides into a decadent lifestyle of prostitutes and drugs. When his wife finds out, Jordan divorces her and marries Naomi in 1991. Meanwhile, the SEC and the FBI begin investigating StrattonOakmont.
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