Bernie Madoff’s story, what he did, how many lives he destroyed, wants so much to be Shakespearean in scope, but somehow, it never quite gets there in, now, two television adaptations. Richard Dreyfuss played the title role in ABC’s miniseries “Madoff” earlier this year, and now Robert De Niro plays the jailed perpetrator of the greatest Ponzi scheme in history in an HBO film directed by Barry Levinson and airing on Saturday, May 20. “The Wizard of Lies” opens just before Madoff’s sons, Mark (Alessandro Nivola) and Andrew (Nathan Darrow), turn their father in after learning that he had deceived them and everyone else for 16 years, operating a financial house of cards on a separate floor of the company’s New York headquarters. The film is based on the best-selling book by Diana B.

 

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