Overview
Martin Scorsese reteams with Leonardo DiCaprio for this adaptation of Jordan Belfort's memoir about his exploits as a crooked banker. Terence Winter provides the screenplay. Jonah Hill and Oscar winner Jean Dujardin co-star.
Awards:
Main Cast & Crew:
Martin Scorsese - Director
Leonardo DiCaprio
Jonah Hill
Margot Robbie
Matthew McConaughey
Kyle Chandler
Rob Reiner
Jon Bernthal
Jon Favreau
Jean Dujardin
Joanna Lumley
Details
- Format: DVD (AC-3, Dolby, Widescreen, Dubbed, Sensormatic)
- Run Time: 179
- UPC: 097363600145
- Genre: DRAMA
- Rating: R (MPAA)
- Release Date: March 2014
Movie Reviews
Reviews:
"[T]here’s a cracked logic, a genius almost, to the film’s amped-up irreverence." -- Grade: A- - 12/24/2013 A.V. Club
"A very fast three hours, WOLF is a fascinating, revolting, outlandish, uproarious, exhilarating and exhausting master work on immorality." - 12/24/2013 Los Angeles Times
"We marvel at the 71-year-old Scorsese’s continuing mastery to deliver electrifying cinematic sequences..." - 12/23/2013 Chicago Sun-Times
3.5 stars out of 4 -- "Sharp humor accentuates the free-wheeling energy of Scorsese's latest film, focused on unscrupulous stockbrokers....Mesmerizing." - 12/24/2013 USA Today
"It is never less than wide-awake....The comedy in THE WOLF OF WALL STREET can be deliciously brutal..." - 12/24/2013 New York Times
"WOLF stars Leonardo DiCaprio....He gives a hell of a performance that's electrifyingly loose, perversely funny, and dripping with jerk charisma." -- Grade: B+ - 01/06/2014 Entertainment Weekly
4 stars out of 4 -- "This is Scorsese, people, delivering a cinematic landmark....The laughs are merciless and nonstop, every one with a sting in its tail." - 12/18/2013 Rolling Stone
5 stars out of 5 -- "An epic, boldly broad screwball comedy about the state of America, then and now." - 12/13/2013 Total Film
"[T]he DiCaprio of WOLF seems loose and uninhibited and freed of premeditated mannerisms. In his fifth collaboration with Scorsese, he’s a constant joy to watch..." - 12/17/2013 Variety
3.5 stars out of 4 -- "It's one of the most entertaining films ever made about loathsome men." - 12/25/2013 RogerEbert.com
"[Scorsese] has made his noisiest, busiest, wildest movie in years, maybe ever....But Scorsese has always been a deft pacer of action, and even at his most manic, he knows how to inject space into a film without killing the buzz." - 12/16/2013 Film Comment
5 stars out of 5 -- "Scorsese's funniest and most focused film in a long time...[with] a bravura performance by Leonardo DiCaprio." - 01/10/2014 Empire
"The comedy here isn’t only verbal but also physical, and it’s in this department that DiCaprio’s performance enters the realm of the undeniable..." - 02/01/2014 Sight and Sound
"THE WOLF OF WALL STREET just might be the most trenchant film made about America’s past decade." - 12/31/2019 The Atlantic
"[I]t's a ton of fun watching DiCaprio navigate the morass, including crawling to a Lamborghini while extremely high on Quaaludes." - 04/20/2020 USA Today