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  • 2011
  • Unrated
  • Cohen Media Group
  • 1 h 31 m
  • 2011
  • Unrated
  • Cohen Media Group
  • 1 h 31 m

Summary Chasing Madoff is the compelling story of Harry Markopolos and his team of investigator's ten-year struggle to expose the harrowing truth behind the infamous Madoff scandal. Throughout the decade long investigation, Markopolos pieced together a chain if white-collar predators consisting of bankers, lieutenant, and henchmen, all linked t...

Directed By: Jeff Prosserman

Written By: Harry Markopolos, Jeff Prosserman

  • 2011
  • Unrated
  • Cohen Media Group
  • 1 h 31 m
  • 2011
  • Unrated
  • Cohen Media Group
  • 1 h 31 m

Chasing Madoff

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 17 Critic Reviews
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Summary Chasing Madoff is the compelling story of Harry Markopolos and his team of investigator's ten-year struggle to expose the harrowing truth behind the infamous Madoff scandal. Throughout the decade long investigation, Markopolos pieced together a chain if white-collar predators consisting of bankers, lieutenant, and henchmen, all linked t...

Directed By: Jeff Prosserman

Written By: Harry Markopolos, Jeff Prosserman

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Mixed or Average Based on 17 Critic Reviews
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18% Negative
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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 17 Critic Reviews
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35% Positive
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47% Mixed
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18% Negative
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83
Aug 24, 2011
Jeff Prosserman's riveting documentary takes a question that haunted the Bernie Madoff scandal - how did he fool everyone for so long? - and answers it with a decisive "He didn't."
By Owen Gleiberman FULL REVIEW
70
Aug 25, 2011
His sorry tale is worth re-telling, if only to piece together the connective tissue between government, big business and, to a lesser degree, the media institutions that propped up what most insiders knew or suspected was a massive fraud for years before Madoff got his comeuppance.
By Ella Taylor FULL REVIEW
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Aug 31, 2011
Chasing Madoff is not a very good documentary, but it's a very devastating one.
By Roger Ebert FULL REVIEW
50
Aug 25, 2011
The film is frustratingly uneven in its presentation.
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50
Aug 25, 2011
Director Jeff Prosserman's retelling borders on reprehensible, as he attempts to heighten an already powerful tale with a parade of needless bells and whistles, from flashy camera work to melodramatic reenactments. What a shame, because the story is truly astonishing.
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Aug 23, 2011
Too bad Prosserman can't trust his material: Overloading the screen with aesthetic dross, the director offers up tiresome symbolic imagery of blood-soaked hands, burning money, and out-of-focus documents. Rather than amping up the intensity, these fast-cut sequences prove disastrously distracting.
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Aug 22, 2011
The fawning personal-life segments are overdone, and undermine the film's compelling reportage about Madoff's ruse and downfall.
By Nick Schager FULL REVIEW

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Release Date Aug 26, 2011
Duration 1 h 31 m
Rating Unrated
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Tagline Unfortunately, based on a true story.
Website http://www.chasingmadoff.com/
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