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| Suggested By CasinoPokerPlace | GREAT GAMBLING MOVIES | | ROUNDERS (1998)
A law school student (Matt Damon) loses his tuition money and everything else he has saved in a high stakes poker game. Learning his lesson (he thinks), he vows to his girl friend (Mol Gretchen) to give up playing forever. That lasts until his best friend (Edward Norton), a notorious card shark, is released from prison and drags him back into the circuit to pay debts he has incurred to a Russian mobster (John Malkovich). John Turturro also appears as a career poker player and Martin Landau plays a law professor who understands his student's need to be something other than what is dictated to him.
121 Minutes; Rated R for pervasive strong language, some sexuality and brief drug use. | | THE FLAMINGO KID (1984)
Jeffrey (Matt Dillon) feels boxed in: in his home, in his life, in his dreams. At the Flamingo Beach Club his eyes are opened to a world filled with what he sees as beautiful people and perfect lives. He turns his back on his family in pursuit of easy street. Jeffrey falls in love with pretty beach girl Carla, and appears to be on his way to a cushy job selling sports cars for the slick Mr. Brody. It all begins to fall apart when Jeffrey discovers that Mr. Brody misled him; and further disintegrates when he notices Mr. Brody cheating at cards. Jeffrey must finally choose between his dreams and honor.
100 Minutes. | | EIGHT MEN OUT (1998) Eight Men Out tells the true story of the infamous 'Black Sox' scandal of 1919, in which the White Sox players deliberately lost the World Series. The movie places the scandal in the context of a labor dispute between the players and their then all-powerful team owner, and how Jewish mobster Arnold Rothstein took advantage of the dispute. The result was a human tragedy for players like "Shoeless" Joe Jackson.
Cast includes: John Cusack and Charlie Sheen. 119 Minutes | | LET IT RIDE (1989)
He drinks. He smokes. He gambles. He curses. He thinks about committing adultery. You'll love him.
Cast includes: Richard Dreyfus, Teri Garr, Jennifer Tilly, and David Johansen. 87 Minutes. | | THE GAMBLER (1974)
For $10,000 they break your arms. For $20,000 they break your legs. Alex Freed (James Caan), a literature professor owes $44,000. He has the gambling vice. When he has lost all his money, he borrows from his girlfriend, then his mother and finally some bad guys that chase him. Despite all of this, he still cannot stop gambling.
Cast includes: James Caan, Paul Sorvino, James Woods, Carl W. Crudup, Burt Young, and Lauren Hutton. 111 Minutes. | | THE HUSTLER (1961)
"Fast" Eddie Felson is a small-time pool hustler with a lot of talent but a self-destructive attitude. His bravado causes him to challenge the legendary "Minnesota Fats" to a high-stakes match, but he loses in a heartbreaking marathon. Now broke and without his long-time manager, Felson faces an uphill battle to regain his confidence and his game. It isn't until he hits rock bottom that he agrees to join up with ruthless and cutthroat manager Bert Gordon. Gordon agrees to take him on the road to learn the ropes. But Felson soon realizes that making it to the top could cost him his soul, and perhaps his girlfriend. Will he decide that this is too steep a price to pay in time to save himself?
Cast includes: Paul Newman, Jacki Gleason, Piper Laurie, and George C. Scott. 134 Minutes | | GUYS AND DOLLS (1955)
All the hot gamblers are in town, and they're all depending on Nathan Detroit to set up this week's incarnation of "The Oldest Established Permanent Floating Crap Game in New York"; the only problem is, he needs $1000 to get the place.
Cast includes: Frank Sinatra, Marlon Brando, and Jean Simmons. 150 Minutes | | HARD EIGHT also known as SYDNEY (1996)
Sydney is a veteran gambler in his sixties who still spends his time at the casinos. When he meets John, a loser with no money at all, he sees him as a son and tries to help him. He takes care of him and teaches him all the tricks of his work. He also helps him to make a relationship with Clementine, a young girl who works at the casino as a waitress. John doesn't seem to be bothered by the fact that Clementine is also a hooker, but soon something happens that turns their lives upside down.
Cast includes: Samuel L. Jackson, Gwyneth Paltrow, Philip Baker Hall, and John C. Reilly, 102 Minutes | | CASINO (1995)
Directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Robert De Niro, Sharon Stone and Joe Pesci. | | THE CINCINATTI KID During the Great Depression, Card sharks get together in New Orleans for the chance to be known as "The Man".
Cast Includes: Steve McQueen, Ann Margret, Edward G. Robinson, Karl Malden, and Tuesday Weld. | | VEGAS VACATION
Once again the Griswold's are taking a family vacation - this time to Las Vegas. And of course, this vacation quickly turns into the trip from hell. Clark can't hold on to his money, his wife who is being seduced by Wayne Newton, his son Rusty who's luck won't quit or his daughter Audrey who decides to pursue a career as a club dancer.
Cast Includes: Chevy Chase, Beverly D'Angelo, Randy Quaid, Christie Brinkley, and Wallace Shawn. Rated PG. | | THE COOLER
There’s also a negative side to this talent: William Macy’s nerdy ability to chill such hot streaks provided the basis for 2003’s “The Cooler.” | | BUGSY (1991)
Ben “Bugsy” Siegel is presented as the visionary gambler who created Las Vegas, and Warren Beatty plays him as the Tony Soprano of his day: charming when he wants to be, and homicidal when he’s doing “business.” According to a fellow gangster, he has one problem that ultimately proves ruinous to his health: “He doesn’t respect money.”
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