I managed to see this latest in original films from HBO the other night, which I see garnered the highest ratings for the premium cable network in 4 years!?? If you recall, there was a TV mini-series on ABC a year or 2 ago with Richard Dreyfuss as Bernie Madoff, and my sister asked me the other night how this one compared, and I told her, well, it's HBO, so a lot more use of the word "f**K"! LOL
Screen legend, Robert De Niro re-teams w/ Oscar-winning filmmaker, Barry Levinson after "What Just Happened", "Wag the Dog" and "Sleepers". Levinson did a good job a few years ago directing Pacino as Kevorkian in the HBO original movie, "You Don't Know Jack". While I didn't like this movie as well as that one, I did enjoy this.
Get ready though, this movie jumps all over the place, but mainly rotates between the stock market crash of 2008, and when Bernie finally was sent to prison in 2009. It's been awhile, so I'm not quite sure I remember, but I "think" the ABC movie mostly had a straight-up linear story-telling approach. Correct me on that if I'm wrong, someone who saw it. LOL
I got a kick out of watching De Niro as Madoff; I mean he's still De Niro! -- sometimes I felt like I was watching the "Goodfellas" or "Raging Bull" version of the whole thing -- like the scene where he complains to the waiter about how his lobster was handled!?? LMAO And kudos to Michelle Pfeiffer, who did a good job playing his wife, and Hank Azaria, who I guess played his real "partner in crime".
Screen legend, Robert De Niro re-teams w/ Oscar-winning filmmaker, Barry Levinson after "What Just Happened", "Wag the Dog" and "Sleepers". Levinson did a good job a few years ago directing Pacino as Kevorkian in the HBO original movie, "You Don't Know Jack". While I didn't like this movie as well as that one, I did enjoy this.
Get ready though, this movie jumps all over the place, but mainly rotates between the stock market crash of 2008, and when Bernie finally was sent to prison in 2009. It's been awhile, so I'm not quite sure I remember, but I "think" the ABC movie mostly had a straight-up linear story-telling approach. Correct me on that if I'm wrong, someone who saw it. LOL
I got a kick out of watching De Niro as Madoff; I mean he's still De Niro! -- sometimes I felt like I was watching the "Goodfellas" or "Raging Bull" version of the whole thing -- like the scene where he complains to the waiter about how his lobster was handled!?? LMAO And kudos to Michelle Pfeiffer, who did a good job playing his wife, and Hank Azaria, who I guess played his real "partner in crime".