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Boiler Room

Boiler Room is a 2000 American crime drama film. It was written and directed by Ben Younger and starring Giovanni Ribisi, Vin Diesel, Nia Long, Ben Affleck, Nicky Katt, Scott Caan, Tom Everett Scott, Ron Rifkin, and Jamie Kennedy. The film was nominated for several awards including the Black Reel Awards 2001, British Independent Film Awards 2000, Deauville Film Festival 2000. The chop shop brokerage firm is a “pump and dump” firm that creates artificial demand in stocks of expired or fake companies, and speculative penny stocks. When the stock prices crash, the victims have no one to sell their shares to in the market when the price of the stock plummets, causing them to lose their investment.

Seth’s father Marty disowns him, accusing him of destroying peoples’ lives. He then requests that his father help him on an IPO scheme to rob the firm of their money. The FBI offer him federal immunity if he agrees to testify against the firm and provide strong evidence of their illegal practices only if his father is released. After that, it is implied that he will be free to go as the FBI will proceed to raid the building and prosecute everybody else. Before leaving, Seth attempts to get Harry’s money back.

The Wolf of Wall Street

The Wolf of Wall Street is a 2013 American biographical black comedy crime film. It is based on the 2007 memoir of the same name by Jordan Belfort. Leonardo DiCaprio stars as Belfort, with Jonah Hill as his business partner and friend, Donnie Azoff, Margot Robbie as his wife, Naomi Lapaglia, and Kyle Chandler as FBI agent Patrick Denham. The film premiered in New York City on December 17, 2013, and was released in the United States on December 25, 2013. In 1987, Jordan Belfort lands a job as a Wall Street stockbroker for L.F. Rothschild.

His tactics and salesmanship largely contribute to the success of his pump and dump scheme. In 1993, Jordan illegally makes $22 million in three hours after securing the IPO of Steve Madden. To hide his money, Jordan opens a Swiss bank account with corrupt banker Jean-Jacques Saurel. In 1996, Jordan, Donnie, and their wives are on a yacht trip to Italy when they learn that Aunt Emma has died.

Jordan decides to travel to Switzerland immediately to settle the bank account. To bypass border controls, he orders his yacht captain to sail to Monaco, but the ship capsizes in a storm. After their rescue, the plane sent to take them to Geneva is destroyed by a seagull. Jordan takes this as a sign from God and attempts to become sober from drugs.