La caduta di Bernie Madoff, il cui schema Ponzi ha contribuito a rapinare 65 miliardi di dollari dalle vittime senza sospetti nella più grande truffa nella storia degli Stati Uniti d'America... Leggi tuttoLa caduta di Bernie Madoff, il cui schema Ponzi ha contribuito a rapinare 65 miliardi di dollari dalle vittime senza sospetti nella più grande truffa nella storia degli Stati Uniti d'America.La caduta di Bernie Madoff, il cui schema Ponzi ha contribuito a rapinare 65 miliardi di dollari dalle vittime senza sospetti nella più grande truffa nella storia degli Stati Uniti d'America.
- Candidato a 4 Primetime Emmy
- 4 vittorie e 20 candidature totali
Diana Henriques
- Diana B. Henriques
- (as Diana B. Henriques)
Mark La Mura
- Ike Sorkin
- (as Mark LaMura)
Michael A. Goorjian
- Dan Horwitz
- (as Michael Goorjian)
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- QuizPulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter Diana Henriques was the first to interview Bernie Madoff on August 24, 2010, after his incarceration on June 29, 2009. She plays herself in various scenes throughout this movie interviewing Madoff (Robert De Niro). She has said that the resemblance was so uncanny, she got goosebumps just sitting opposite him.
- BlooperWhen Mark Madoff's wife checks her phone the morning of his suicide, she has 4 messages from him. She opens the first two, which are dated December 11, 2010. However, the screen showing the list of text messages has all 4 of them dated 9/30/2015.
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[last lines]
Bernie Madoff: Let me ask you a question. Do you think I'm a sociopath?
- Colonne sonoreWinter Wonderland
Written by Richard B. Smith (as Dick Smith), Felix Bernard
Performed by Mitch Miller
Courtesy of Columbia Records
By arrangement with Sony Music Licensing
Recensione in evidenza
An interesting attempt to weave a story line on the Madoff ponzi scheme but one that in the end is disjoint, incomplete, and largely unsatisfying. It certainly falls far short of other great financial movies – the Big Short, Margin Call, and Smartest Guys in the Room, to name a few. Worth watching but not likely a movie to savor, add closure, provide moral assurance, or make you feel anything. Too many moving pieces that lack grounding – the timeline has no center and the flashbacks and jumps forward are too disjoint, too many supporting characters are painted as morally ambiguous, and the many defrauded clients are nameless and faceless.
As for the some of the details, it's hard to get around Michelle Pfeiffer accent. It may be spot-on but the voice is just annoying. Add in Robert De Niro's unbalanced intonations and a discordant soundtrack and sound-editing and it is not a movie that will sit well with your ears.
It should have been done as a 3-4 part mini-series. They would have had a lot more time to not only relay the full time line and details of the case but also go into the many interesting sub-stories and tragedies. For example, the efforts of Harry Markopolos to unmask the fraud is addressed only by showing Bernie and Ruth watching 30 seconds of testimony on the TV in their condo. The questions of the hundreds of millions potentially transferred to London accounts for the benefit of Madoff relatives is not explored. The ineptitude of the SEC, FINRA and other agencies is also given short-shrift. Did you know that Shana Madoff, the chief compliance officer and niece of Bernie Madoff, married an Assistant Director of the Office of Compliance Investigations and Examinations at the SEC. They met in 2003 when he was performing an examination as to whether Madoff was running a Ponzi scheme. The SEC Director of Compliance Investigations and Examinations attended their wedding in 2007.
As it is, the movie dips its toe into the $64.8B (yes $64.8 billion) fraud case and provides some insights as to who in the inner circle may or may not have been culpable– all in the course largely telling a family drama. Interesting and entertaining, yes. A good film, meh. Disappointing for what it could have been, most definitely.
As for the some of the details, it's hard to get around Michelle Pfeiffer accent. It may be spot-on but the voice is just annoying. Add in Robert De Niro's unbalanced intonations and a discordant soundtrack and sound-editing and it is not a movie that will sit well with your ears.
It should have been done as a 3-4 part mini-series. They would have had a lot more time to not only relay the full time line and details of the case but also go into the many interesting sub-stories and tragedies. For example, the efforts of Harry Markopolos to unmask the fraud is addressed only by showing Bernie and Ruth watching 30 seconds of testimony on the TV in their condo. The questions of the hundreds of millions potentially transferred to London accounts for the benefit of Madoff relatives is not explored. The ineptitude of the SEC, FINRA and other agencies is also given short-shrift. Did you know that Shana Madoff, the chief compliance officer and niece of Bernie Madoff, married an Assistant Director of the Office of Compliance Investigations and Examinations at the SEC. They met in 2003 when he was performing an examination as to whether Madoff was running a Ponzi scheme. The SEC Director of Compliance Investigations and Examinations attended their wedding in 2007.
As it is, the movie dips its toe into the $64.8B (yes $64.8 billion) fraud case and provides some insights as to who in the inner circle may or may not have been culpable– all in the course largely telling a family drama. Interesting and entertaining, yes. A good film, meh. Disappointing for what it could have been, most definitely.
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- The Wizard of Lies
- Luoghi delle riprese
- 17 East 89th Street, New York, New York, Stati Uniti(Entrance to Madoffs apartment building)
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- Tempo di esecuzione2 ore 13 minuti
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