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Rounders (1998) - Movie trailer, synopsis, poster and more

John Dahl directed this search of New York particular clubs doting to tipsy-stakes poker, with first-himself unfolding from the obscure’s medial get, law pupil Mike McDermott (Matt Damon), who loses his full savings to Russian guild proprietor Teddy KGB (John Malkovich). Mike then turns away from cards, devoting his attentions to his law studies and his get along-in girlfriend Jo (Gretchen Mol), who’s perturbed when Mike’s former gambling buddy Worm (Edward Norton) is released from community home. She has shapely two together argue with to torment, since it takes Worm only a sum of minutes to lure Mike back into poker affray. When she learns Mike has returned to the poker clubs, she moves out, and Mike begins to yield interest in his studies. Worm has a pre-calaboose in dire straits, and the inauspicious Grama (Michael Rispoli) wants the bread. Mike not only indulges the unreliable Worm, he gets interested in Worm’s debts. When Grama demands $15,000 on a five-day deadline, the two buddies go into merry implements with a non-keep, no-doze gambling binge that spirals sliding toward an decisive confrontation with Teddy KGB. Darkened join interiors and New York nights are captured by the cinematography of Jean Yves Escoffier, who moved from French films (the 1991 Les Amants du Pont Neuf) to American movies with the cogitative surfaces of Overflow Baggage (1997) and the patina of pathos found in Unity Korine’s empirical Gummo (1997). Shown at the 1998 Venice Steam Fete and the 1998 Montreal Membrane Fete.

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