Find Movies & TV
Home
Live TV
On Demand
Discover
Explore
Movies & TV Shows
Most Popular
Leaving Soon
Categories
Action
Animation
Comedy
Crime
Descriptive Audio
Documentary
Drama
En Español
Horror
Music
Romance
Sci-Fi
Thriller
Western
Explore
Browse Channels
Featured Channels
CBS Sports HQ
SNL Vault
Ion Mystery
Categories
Hit TV
Drama TV
True Crime
Reality
News
Sports
Comedy
History & Science
Movies
Food & Home
Lifestyle
Nature & Travel
Daytime TV
Game Shows
Sci-Fi & Action
Kids & Family
Classic TV
Anime & Gaming
Chills & Thrills
International
En Español
Music
Sign In
The Wizard of Lies
Directed by
Barry Levinson
R
2017
2h 13m
Drama
,
Crime
,
and more
6.8
73%
64%
Add to Watchlist
The fall of Bernie Madoff, whose Ponzi scheme robbed $65 billion from unsuspecting victims; the largest fraud in U.S. history.
More
Where to Watch The Wizard of Lies
Max
Subscription
Max Amazon Channel
Subscription
Amazon Video
Rent $3.99
Buy $9.99
+4 more
Cast of The Wizard of Lies
Robert De Niro
Bernie Madoff
Michelle Pfeiffer
Ruth Madoff
Hank Azaria
Frank Dipascali
Kristen Connolly
Stephanie Madoff
Lily Rabe
Catherine Hooper
Alessandro Nivola
Mark Madoff
Kathrine Narducci
Eleanor Squillari
Nathan Darrow
Andrew Madoff
Steve Coulter
Martin London
Michael A. Goorjian
Dan Horwitz
Geoffrey Cantor
Ostrow
Jason Babinsky
Michael Schwartz
Marta Milans
Waitress
Kelly AuCoin
Agent Ted Cacioppi
Amanda Warren
SEC Investigator
Michael Kostroff
Peter Madoff
Portland Helmich
Reporter
Doris McCarthy
Upscale Gala Guest
Hamilton Clancy
David Sheehan
Tommy Bayiokos
News Reporter
Gary Wilmes
Reed
Cece King
Club Codette
Kelly Aaron
Trader
Amelia Brain
Party Guest
Marion McCorry
Pinks
Sophie von Haselberg
Nicole De Bello
Karen Goeller
Driver
Sydney Gayle
Emily Madoff
Vincent Chan
Photographer / Paparazzi
Adam Butterfield
Caterer
Razor Rizzotti
Mike
Derrick Simmons
FBI Agent Kane Partner
James Brickhouse
Visitor
Ray Iannicelli
Kenneth Langone
Guy Sparks
Florida Fisherman
Ben Hammer
Carl Shapiro
Ethan Coskay
Pool Kid
Victor Joel Ortiz
Picard Reporter
Chris LaPanta
Federal Agent
Nicole Scimeca
Daughter
Anthoula Katsimatides
Young Mom
David Little
Irving Picard
Jean Brassard
Pierre
Mark Axelowitz
Robert Jaffe
Reagan Grella
Audrey
Giulia Cicciari
Girl in Pool
Wayne J. Miller
Party Guest
Neil Brooks Cunningham
Tom FitzMaurice
Lori Burch
Palm Beach Party Guest
Christine J. Carlson
Bartender
Sammy Peralta
Inmate Gonzales
Ralph Bracco
17th floor Office worker
Eli Golden
Young Daniel
Mark LaMura
Ike Sorkin
Robert Levey II
Pool Party Guest (uncredited)
Geoffrey Dawe
BLM Employee
The Wizard of Lies Ratings & Reviews
San Francisco Chronicle
David Wiegand
Levinson does a solid job for the most part.
New York Post
Robert Rorke
[The Wizard of Lies] achieves its greatest power as a character study.
RogerEbert.com
Brian Tallerico
The 135-minute film suffers from being too long and sometimes bizarrely constructed, but it's the kind of solid true story we've come to expect from an HBO Original Film.
Newsday
Verne Gay
De Niro and Pfeiffer inhabit these roles so fully that you forget they're De Niro and Pfeiffer - no small feat considering their statures.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Gail Pennington
Madoff proves too slippery for clear characterization, even for the combined talents of Levinson and De Niro, and the result is a film that is dull, with bursts of weird.
Entertainment Weekly
Darren Franich
The Wizard of Lies is less convincingly about Bernie Madoff than it is about the struggle to understand Bernie Madoff: The search for why and how, by his family and his victims and the system, maybe even the man himself.
AV Club
Gwen Ihnat
At the end of the film, we might have a better understanding of how this giant Ponzi scheme unfolded, but we still have no idea why it happened-a significant shortcoming for an HBO movie with this kind of pedigree.
San Jose Mercury News
Chuck Barney
It should come as no surprise that, through it all, De Niro's Madoff remains an enigma - an android-like con man prone to blank stares and remorseless, matter-of-fact statements when questioned about his reprehensible actions.
New York Times
Noel Murray
The best scenes in "The Wizard of Lies" just put Mr. De Niro in a room opposite his co-stars, and let him go to work.
Newsweek
Charles Taylor
It's not a terrible piece of work, but the most you can claim for it is a kind of bloodless competence.
The New Republic
Jo Livingstone
The Wizard of Lies is a movie with a terrible name and some mediocre aspects. But great central performances from two icons of the silver screen make it necessary watching.
Salon.com
Melanie McFarland
What Wizard of Lies lacks in terms of a broader historical span is compensated for by telling Madoff's tale as a classical tragedy about hubris and human cost - only in this case we watch as the villain's wife and children take the brunt of the toll.
Flavorwire
Jason Bailey
A team-up of talents like this would've been a big, splashy theatrical release not too long ago. The multiplex's loss is HBO's gain.
Los Angeles Times
Lorraine Ali
As Ruth, Pfeiffer convincingly portrays a pampered woman left with utterly nothing - she's lost her homes, status and, most important, her relationship with her sons.
Washington Post
Hank Stuever
The decision by Wizard's three credited screenwriters to open the film with the prison interview (and essentially tell the whole saga as a progressive flashback) feels like a structural mistake that can't be repaired.
CNN.com
Brian Lowry
The trappings of Wizard of Lies are, like Madoff's possessions, designed to impress. The movie, however, doesn't fare quite as well in getting to the root of his magic act, or how he was able for so long to keep his house of cards standing.
Boston Globe
Matthew Gilbert
Once we turn to the psychological fallout, and Levinson gives us a more intimate point of view, The Wizard of Lies is captivating.
Variety
Maureen Ryan
Given that it offers no new insights on Madoff and underserves its stellar cast, it's hard to see the return on this particular investment.
IndieWire
Ben Travers
The Wizard of Lies isn't interested in gray areas. It wants you to see what the victims saw, and from a similarly pained perspective.
The Atlantic
David Sims
The Wizard of Lies... doesn't try to either understand or humanize Madoff, but all the same it manages to be an intimate, unsettling portrait of a borderline sociopath.
Watch The Wizard of Lies Videos
The Wizard Of Lies
The Wizard Of Lies
Trailer
Take Plex everywhere
Watch free anytime, anywhere, on almost any device.
See the full list of supported devices
Home
Live TV
On Demand
Discover
