Rounders

    Rounders
    1998

    Synopsis

    A young reformed gambler must return to playing big stakes poker to help a friend pay off loan sharks.

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    Cast

    • Matt DamonMike McDermott
    • Edward NortonLester 'Worm' Murphy
    • John TurturroJoey Knish
    • Gretchen MolJo
    • John MalkovichTeddy KGB
    • Famke JanssenPetra
    • Martin LandauAbe Petrovsky
    • Michael RispoliGrama
    • Goran VisnjicMaurice
    • Mal Z. LawrenceIrving

    Recommendations

    • 80

      The New York Times

      Mischievously entertaining...Dahl's film has character in oversupply even if its actual characters are sometimes thin. Poker fever makes up for whatever the story lacks in everyday emotions.
    • 80

      The A.V. Club

      Rounders is such a smart, tough little film that its strengths override its fairly serious weaknesses.
    • 63

      Chicago Tribune

      Lazy, predictable and even dumb about what happens away from the tables. [11 Sept 1998]
    • 60

      TV Guide Magazine

      Richly atmospheric but a little thin in the character department: It feels oddly truncated, despite nicely textured performances.
    • 60

      Rolling Stone

      Stylish entertainment and smartass fun when director John Dahl ("The Last Seduction") plays his strong suit (a gifted cast) instead of his weakest (a derivative plot).
    • 50

      Christian Science Monitor

      The acting is solid, but the story builds less drama and suspense than its high-stakes subject might lead you to expect.
    • 50

      San Francisco Chronicle

      It should have been the poker equivalent of "The Hustler." But it suffers from iron-poor blood. No energy. It just lies there.
    • 40

      Salon

      Neither Dahl nor most of his actors ever quite convince us that there's a good reason to sit in front of a movie screen watching them for more than two hours.

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