![]() ![]() Ultimately, Jordan's wild and greedy ways will cost him the women he loves, his livelihood, and his freedom when the FBI (led by Kyle Chandler's agent) finally bust him. Bacchanalian orgies are commonplace, held everywhere from the office to mansions to airplanes. We see Jordan slide from non-user to full-fledged raving addict (his narcotic of choice being Quaaludes, but he also abuses cocaine and morphine). And with remarkable success comes extraordinary excess in every imaginable way, from sex to drugs (especially drugs) to material things. ![]() Soon, the firm is pulling down the big bucks and expanding into a true force to be reckoned with. (Indeed, Belfort's Wall Street days were, as the film shows, quite short-lived.) A regular middle-class kid, Belfort started Stratton Oakmont as a boiler room, training some of his drug-dealing neighborhood pals to become cold-calling brokers of penny stocks. Belfort's success, cunning, and penchant for excess earned him the nickname "The Wolf of Wall Street," despite the fact that his firm was based in Long Island. He later went from bilking working folks to the rich when he and his firm, Stratton Oakmont, made the leap to IPOs (including representing shoe impresario Steve Madden). ![]()
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