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The Wolf of Wall Street: Plot, Cast, Ending & Where to Watch

2013 · United States of America · Crime, Drama, Comedy · 3h 00m · English

The Wolf of Wall Street is a 2013 United States of America crime film directed by Martin Scorsese. This guide covers the plot, full cast, an overview of the ending, where to watch, and similar films you might want next.

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Original Title
The Wolf of Wall Street
Director
Martin Scorsese
Writers
Terence Winter
Country
United States of America
Runtime
3h 00m
Release
Dec 25, 2013
§ 01 Plot · 6 min read

The Wolf of Wall Street Plot Summary

The Wolf of Wall Street is a 2013 American biographical dark comedy crime film co-produced and directed by Martin Scorsese, written by Terence Winter, and based on Jordan Belfort's 2007 memoir. It loosely recounts Belfort's career as a stockbroker in New York City and how his firm, Stratton Oakmont, engaged in rampant corruption and fraud on Wall Street, leading to his downfall. The film stars Leonardo DiCaprio as Belfort; Jonah Hill as his business partner and friend Donnie Azoff; Margot Robbie as his second wife, Naomi Lapaglia; Matthew McConaughey as his mentor and former boss Mark Hanna; and Kyle Chandler as FBI special agent Patrick Denham portraying Gregory Coleman. It is DiCaprio's fifth collaboration with Scorsese.

● Quick takeaway

The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) is a United States of America crime film, directed by Martin Scorsese, running 180 minutes. A New York stockbroker refuses to cooperate in a large securities fraud case involving corruption on Wall Street, corporate banking world and mob infiltration. Based on Jordan Belfort's autobiography. Stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Jonah Hill. Critical reception: IMDb 8.2/10, Rotten Tomatoes 79%, Metacritic 75/100. Tagline: "Earn. Spend. Party.." This guide covers the plot, full cast, ending, and where to watch.

§ 02 Cast · 6 roles

Cast and Characters

Leonardo DiCaprio headshot
as Jordan Belfort
DiCaprio's fifth collaboration with Scorsese and, in his own interviews, the role he prepared for hardest. The performance is built on sustained physical comedy — the Quaalude car sequence is essentially a silent-cinema setpiece — and an unbroken voice-over the actor delivers as direct sales pitch to the camera. DiCaprio's Best Actor Oscar nomination for the role was his fourth, and the performance is widely credited with finally unlocking the comic register his earlier serious work had concealed.
Jonah Hill headshot
Jonah Hill
as Donnie Azoff
Hill, four years past Superbad and one Oscar nomination into his pivot from comedy to character work, plays Donnie as a fictionalised composite of Belfort's actual lieutenant Danny Porush. The famous goldfish scene, the white-teeth dental work and the late-script implosion are all Hill's, and the role earned him a second Best Supporting Actor nomination. Reports that he took the SAG-minimum sixty-thousand-dollar pay to work with Scorsese have become part of the production's lore.
Margot Robbie headshot
Margot Robbie
as Naomi Lapaglia
Robbie's breakout role and her introduction to American audiences, two years before Suicide Squad and Mary Queen of Scots would establish her as a global star. The performance is built on a Brooklyn accent the Australian actor maintained for the duration of the shoot and a refusal to play Naomi as either the trophy wife the script could have written or the moral counterweight the script also could have written. The closing-act confrontation scene with DiCaprio is the performance's central proof.
Matthew McConaughey headshot
Matthew McConaughey
as Mark Hanna
McConaughey's single scene — the Top of the Sixes lunch, the chest-thumping percussion, the monologue about the fugazi — is one of the most-circulated clips in the film. It was reportedly improvised in part from a relaxation exercise the actor used between takes. The role lands in the middle of his McConaissance run, between Magic Mike and Dallas Buyers Club, and is essentially a single-scene cameo that became the picture's most quoted moment.
Kyle Chandler headshot
Kyle Chandler
as Agent Patrick Denham
Chandler, fresh off Friday Night Lights and the year before he would re-anchor television in Bloodline, plays Denham as the film's only character who is not performing for somebody. The yacht-deck confrontation with DiCaprio is among the picture's most carefully written exchanges, and Chandler holds the moral weight without flattening Denham into a procedural archetype. The subway-ride coda — Denham reading the Belfort indictment on a New York City train — is one of Scorsese's quieter closing images.
Rob Reiner headshot
Rob Reiner
as Max Belfort
Reiner, the When Harry Met Sally and A Few Good Men director, takes the role of Belfort's father with an actor's-actor enjoyment of being on the wrong side of the camera. Max — 'Mad Max,' in the film's internal nickname — is Stratton Oakmont's chief financial officer, and Reiner's running performance of an older Jewish father gradually losing patience with his son's business culture is one of the picture's most reliable comic engines.
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Ending Overview

How does The Wolf of Wall Street end? Our spoiler-aware breakdown walks through the final act beat by beat — including the choices, motivations, and ambiguous final shot that viewers most often debate.

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Frequently Asked

What is The Wolf of Wall Street about?

A New York stockbroker refuses to cooperate in a large securities fraud case involving corruption on Wall Street, corporate banking world and mob infiltration.

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