Synopsis
As an ex-gambler teaches a hot-shot college kid some things about playing cards, he finds himself pulled into the world series of poker, where his protégé is his toughest competition.
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Cast
- Burt ReynoldsTommy Vinson
- Bret HarrisonAlex Stillman
- Shannon ElizabethMichelle
- Maria MasonHelen Vinson
- Gary GrubbsMr. Stillman
- Caroline McKinleyMrs. Stillman
- Charles DurningCharlie Adler
- Brandon Ray OliveBen Thomas
- Jennifer TillyKaren "Razor" Jones
- Jon EyezMike 'Double Diamond' Jackson
Recommendations
- 50
ReelViews
There's no compelling reason to see Deal. Everything it offers is familiar to the extent where even though it's not a remake, it feels like one. - 50
L.A. Weekly
When you're working with clearly conventional material, it helps to attack it from a cockeyed angle or at least adopt a gritty, lived-in urgency, but Deal is fatally earnest. - 50
Chicago Reader
The main pleasure of this high-stakes-poker drama is watching a septuagenarian Burt Reynolds effortlessly revive his 70s screen persona as a strutting paragon of male shrewdness and sexuality. - 50
Boston Globe
Deal doesn't really care about the characters as much as it does the World Poker Championships, where Tommy and Alex end up. Once we get there the movie becomes interesting because Cates understands the game and its dramas a lot better than he understands people and theirs. - 40
The Hollywood Reporter
The dull production obviously sees itself as an updated "Cincinnati Kid" for the World Poker Tour set, but the end result and its characters have all the originality and dramatic depth of a TV telecast. - 40
Variety
Public fascination with Texas Hold 'em and other poker variations will likely bolster B.O., though more discriminating auds may choose to pass. - 38
Chicago Tribune
Moving slowly these days, Reynolds does less than no acting in this role, and he’s still the best thing in Deal. - 30
Los Angeles Times
The direction by Gil Cates Jr. is inept at best, and the script by Cates and Marc Weinstock seems to operate under the assumption that trafficking in flabby clichés -- the kindly call girl, the scrappy youngster, the angry dad -- will somehow smooth over the underdeveloped characters.
