A Scorsese epic of American greed

The film is based on the memoir of disgraced stockbroker Jordan Belfort, who made a fortune by defrauding clients and spent it on expensive cars, homes, a yacht, hookers, orgies and all the alcohol and drugs he could consume. Scorsese, the 71-year-old Academy Award-winning director of 2006's The Departed, strays from the cinematic turf of mobsters to focus on a different type of crook in the film that magazine Screen International described...watch now>>