--- title: 'The Wizard of Lies (2017)' type: 'film' director: 'Barry Levinson' released: '2017-01-01' runtime_minutes: 133 genres: - 'Drama' - 'History' countries: - 'United States' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-wizard-of-lies-2017' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1933667/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # The Wizard of Lies (2017) 2017 · 133 min · Drama, History · United States ## Synopsis The Wizard of Lies is a 2017 American television biopic film directed by Barry Levinson and written by Sam Levinson, Sam Baum, and John Burnham Schwartz, based on the 2011 non-fiction book of the same name by Diana B. Henriques. The film stars Robert De Niro as businessman and fraudster Bernie Madoff, Michelle Pfeiffer as his wife Ruth Madoff, and Alessandro Nivola as their older son Mark Madoff. It aired on HBO on May 20, 2017. This is the fourth film featuring De Niro and Pfeiffer, following Stardust (2007), New Year's Eve (2011) and The Family (2013), as well as their first collaboration for television. ## Credits - **Director:** [Barry Levinson](https://cinepixo.com/people/barry-levinson) - **Screenplay:** [Sam Levinson](https://cinepixo.com/people/sam-levinson) - **Director of Photography:** [Eigil Bryld](https://cinepixo.com/people/eigil-bryld) - **Editor:** [Ron Patane](https://cinepixo.com/people/ron-patane) ## Cast - [Robert De Niro](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-de-niro) - [Alessandro Nivola](https://cinepixo.com/people/alessandro-nivola) - [Lily Rabe](https://cinepixo.com/people/lily-rabe) - [Kathrine Narducci](https://cinepixo.com/people/kathrine-narducci) - [Michael A. Goorjian](https://cinepixo.com/people/michael-a-goorjian) - [Michelle Pfeiffer](https://cinepixo.com/people/michelle-pfeiffer) - [Kristen Connolly](https://cinepixo.com/people/kristen-connolly) - [Nathan Darrow](https://cinepixo.com/people/nathan-darrow) - [Hank Azaria](https://cinepixo.com/people/hank-azaria) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Official site: http://www.hbo.com/movies/the-wizard-of-lies Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-wizard-of-lies-2017 Film facts: Wikidata (Q20950020); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.