TY - ADVS AU - Scorsese, Martin AU - Scorsese,Martin AU - Winter,Terence AU - DiCaprio,Leonardo AU - Aziz,Riza AU - McFarland,Joey AU - Koskoff,Emma Tillinger AU - Hill,Jonah AU - Robbie,Margot AU - McConaughey,Matthew AU - Chandler,Kyle AU - Reiner,Rob AU - Bernthal,Jon AU - Favreau,Jon AU - Dujardin,Jean AU - Lumley,Joanna AU - Milioti,Cristin AU - Ebersole,Christine AU - Whigham,Shea AU - Cas,Katarina AU - Byrne,P.J AU - Choi,Kenneth AU - Sacca,Brian AU - Zebrowski,Henry AU - Suplee,Ethan ED - Paramount Pictures Corporation ED - Red Granite Pictures, ED - Appian Way (Firm) ED - Sikelia Productions ED - EMJAG Productions (Firm) TI - The Wolf of Wall Street SN - 1415777047 AV - PN1997.2 .W654 2014 U1 - 791.4372 23 PY - 2014/// CY - Hollywood PB - Paramount Pictures KW - Securities industry, Stockbrokers, Success, Stock market function, Wall Street (New York, N.Y.), corporate greed KW - lcgft N1 - Based on the book by Jordan Belfort; Originally released as a motion picture in 2013; Includes feature on Blu-ray and DVD; The Wolf of Wall Street is a 2013 American biographical black comedy crime film directed by Martin Scorsese and written by Terence Winter, based on the 2007 memoir of the same name by Jordan Belfort. It recounts Belfort's perspective on his career as a stockbroker in New York City. In 1987, Jordan Belfort lands a job as a Wall Street stockbroker for L.F. Rothschild, employed under Mark Hanna. He is quickly enticed into the drug-fueled stockbroker culture and Hanna's belief that a broker's only goal is to make money for himself. Jordan loses his job following Black Monday, the largest one-day stock market drops in history, and takes a job at a boiler room brokerage firm on Long Island that specializes in penny stocks. Thanks to his aggressive pitching style and the high commissions, Jordan makes a small fortune. Jordan befriends his neighbor Donnie Azoff, and the two found their own company. They recruit several of Jordan's friends, whom Jordan trains in the art of the "hard sell". Jordan's tactics and salesmanship largely contribute to the success of his pump and dump scheme, which involves inflating the price of a stock by issuing misleading, positive statements in order to sell it at an artificially augmented price. When the perpetrators of the scheme sell their overvalued securities, the price drops immensely and those who were conned into buying at the inflated price are left with stock that is suddenly worth much less than what they paid. To cloak this, Jordan gives the firm the respectable-sounding name Stratton Oakmont in 1989. After an exposé in Forbes, hundreds of ambitious young financiers’ flock to his company. Jordan becomes immensely successful and slides into a decadent lifestyle of prostitutes and drugs. He has an affair with a woman named Naomi Lapaglia; when his wife finds out, Jordan divorces her and marries Naomi in 1991. Meanwhile, the SEC and the FBI begin investigating Stratton Oakmont. In 1993, Jordan illegally makes $22 million in three hours after securing the IPO of Steve Madden. This brings him and his firm further to the attention of the FBI. To hide his money, Jordan opens a Swiss bank account with corrupt banker Jean-Jacques Saurel in the name of Naomi's Aunt Emma, who is a British subject and thus outside the immediate reach of American authorities. He uses the wife and in-laws of his friend Brad Bodnick, who have European passports, to smuggle the cash into Switzerland. Donnie and Brad get into public brawl during a money exchange which results in Brad being arrested but Donnie escapes. Jordan learns from his private investigator that the FBI is wiretapping his phones. Fearing for his son, Jordan's father advises him to leave Stratton Oakmont and lie low while Jordan's lawyer negotiates a deal to keep him out of prison. Jordan, however, cannot bear to quit and talks himself into staying in the middle of his farewell speech. In 1996, Jordan, Donnie, and their wives are on a yacht trip to Italy when they learn that Aunt Emma has died. Jordan proceeds to Switzerland to forge her name and save the account. To bypass border controls, he orders his yacht captain to sail to Monaco, but the ship capsizes in a storm. After their rescue, the plane sent to take them to Geneva is destroyed when a seagull flies into the engine; Jordan takes this as a sign from God and attempts to sober his drug addiction. In 1998, the FBI arrests Jordan because Saurel (arrested for an unrelated offense) has informed the FBI about Jordan. Since the evidence against him is overwhelming, Jordan agrees to gather evidence on his colleagues in exchange for leniency. Naomi tells Jordan she is divorcing him and wants full custody of their daughter and infant son. In a cocaine-fueled rage, Jordan hits Naomi and tries to drive away with his daughter, but crashes his car in the driveway; Director of photography, Rodrigo Prieto ; editor, Thelma Schoonmaker ; executive producer, Georgia Kacandes ; executive producers, Alexandra Milchan, Rick Yorn, Irwin Winkler ; executive producers, Danny Dimbort, Joel Gotler; MPAA rating: R; for sequences of strong sexual content, graphic nudity, drug use and language throughout, and for some violence N2 - Martin Scorsese directs the story of New York stockbroker Jordan Belfort. From the American dream to corporate greed, Belfort goes from penny stocks and righteousness to IPOs and a life of corruption in the late '80s. Excess success and affluence in his early twenties as founder of the brokerage firm Stratton Oakmont warranted Belfort the title 'The Wolf of Wall Street.'; "The laughs are merciless and nonstop, every one with a sting in its tail."--Rolling Stone; "...it's the director's raunchiest, funniest film yet."--Newsday; "...a delirious, manic, push-the-limits comedy of gaudy amorality that tests the audience's taste."--New York Daily News; Sex. Money. Power. Drugs. Brace yourself for an outrageous true story from legendary filmmaker Martin Scorsese. Jordan Belfort, a young stockbroker, is hungry for fame and glory in New York City, where corruption is king and more is never enough UR - http://www.mrqe.com/movie_reviews/the-wolf-of-wall-street-m100073742 UR - http://midwesttapes.com/images/movies/000/000/000/011/061/000000000011061693.gif UR - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wb_UJ3bHiVI ER -