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Gambling has found its way to be the theme of many classic movies. There have been many extraordinary films that have gambling as their central plot or have been shot inside a casino industry. They deal with gambling-related topics starting from casinos, online casinos, blackjack to poker, hustling and many more. Many of these films have big names and have made it to the Oscar nomination list. Some of them managed to win the Oscars as well. But most importantly, these movies are fun and entertaining to watch and to a large extent have also or attempted to normalize gambling and betting. Today, thanks to pop culture, gambling is becoming less stigmatised and people have started viewing the casino industry from a different perspective.

High Roller: The Stu Ungar Story

This autobiographical masterpiece is based on Stu Ungar, a high roller who had once taken the entire casino industry by storm with his exceptional and brilliant poker skills and was the only person till date who managed to win three WSOP Main tournaments. In this A.W Vidmer’s directorial masterpiece, Micheal Imperioli who effortlessly donned the role of Stu Ungar beautifully expressed the break down of the character who once ruled the casino industry. The film captures the poker player’s journey featuring the extreme high and low points of his career. Eventually losing his wealth on betting on horses, Stu’s meteoric rise to the pinnacle of the casino industry followed by his absolute downfall is both devastatingly beautiful and entertaining.

The Cooler

In this comedic masterpiece, William H. Macy plays a quirky character who has been doomed with bad luck. The bad luck is so contagious that he quickly gains the reputation of being a cooler- a title designated to people with an excess amount of bad luck. He is so full of bad luck that casinos hire him to make him stand near the punters at the casino tables. The punters eventually lose the game and the casino’s house edge remains unaffected. But tables turn when the cooler’s bad luck changes into good luck and he eventually becomes a favourite lucky charm of every gambler in Las Vegas, much to the dismay and disappointment of the casino owners. In this fun premise, Wayne Kramer brought together an amazing cast that delivers a spectacular performance and provides an in-depth view of the casino industry that is still largely dominated by superstitions and the idea of luck.

Seabiscuit

The story may not have a direct link to casinos or online casinos but has a lot to do with the betting industry in general. The plot depicts the lives of a jockey’s, a horse’s and a trainer’s rise to the top of the betting world. Jeff Bridges is a lonely individual who has depression and is cursed with bad luck. The only thing that matters close to him is a lazy and good for nothing horse called Seabiscuit who was discovered by a cowboy trainer (Chris Cooper). Toby Maguire plays the role of an unusual jockey who trains Seabiscuit to win numerous matches and steer close to victories in this extraordinary underdog story. The best part about the film is that many of the events in the film are said to based on actual, true facts.

Rounders

Rounders is the story of a young entrepreneur who pays his university fees by successfully beating gamblers at the poker table. Effortlessly played by Matt Damon, the show provides an insight into the poker industry. The film features other big names as well including John Malkovich and Edward Norton. Matt Damon has one mission: to defeat and crush the spirits of an indolent and irresponsible poker baron Malkovich in a high stakes game of poker. Marked by brilliant performances, the film is a genuine and honest representation of the highs and lows of the casino industry, poker techniques and the occasional table banter.

Rounders is a 1998 American drama film about the underground world of high-stakes poker, directed by John Dahl and starring Matt Damon and Edward Norton. The story follows two friends who need to win at high-stakes poker to quickly pay off a large debt. The term 'rounder' refers to a person traveling around from city to city seeking high-stakes card games.

Rounders opened to generally mixed reviews and was moderately successful at the box office. With the poker boom in the early 2000s, the film later became a cult hit.

Plot[edit]

New York City law student and gifted poker player Mike McDermott (Matt Damon) dreams of winning the World Series of Poker. At an underground Texas hold 'em game run by Russian mobster Teddy 'KGB' (John Malkovich), an overconfident Mike loses his entire $30,000 bankroll in a single hand. Shaken, he promises his girlfriend and fellow student Jo (Gretchen Mol) he has quit poker, and concentrates on law school. His mentor Joey Knish (John Turturro) offers to stake him to rebuild his bankroll but Mike declines, and instead accepts a part-time job to make ends meet.

Several months pass and Mike stays true to his promise until his childhood friend Lester 'Worm' Murphy (Edward Norton) is released from prison. While Mike is an honest player, Worm is a hustler and unapologetic cheat. To help Worm pay off a debt, Mike sets him up with games across town, and reluctantly sits in on a game, interfering with his studies and his relationship with Jo. Mike allows Worm to play on his credit at the Chesterfield Club; however, Worm takes out $10,000 and begins a tab in Mike's name. Worm runs into Grama (Michael Rispoli), a dangerous pimp, who has bought Worm’s debt – Worm now owes $25,000 directly to Grama, who is working for KGB. Grama takes Worm’s $10,000, threatening him to pay the rest. As Mike returns to his poker lifestyle and friends, Jo ends their relationship.

Mike learns from Petra (Famke Janssen) at the Chesterfield that Worm has racked up a $6,000 debt in Mike’s name. In Atlantic City, Worm tells Mike about his debt to Grama but withholds that he is working for KGB. Mike proposes to Grama that Worm pay weekly installments; Grama considers the offer but also mocks Worm for his inability to pay him. Worm responds by insulting Grama and as the two nearly come to blows, Mike defuses the situation by agreeing to vouch for Worm and an angry Grama gives them five days to pay the remaining $15,000. Mike decides to help Worm win the money by playing in several games in and around the city.

On a winning streak, Mike earns $7,200 in three days, but still needs to double it in 48 hours. Worm directs Mike to an out-of-town game hosted by New York state troopers, where he wins almost the full $15,000 before Worm unexpectedly joins the game. The officers catch Worm base-dealing to help Mike; they are beaten up and relieved of their entire bankroll. Worm finally confesses that Grama is working for KGB. With their lives in danger, Worm decides to flee, but Mike returns to the city, cutting ties with Worm.

Mike asks Grama for more time, to no avail. Mike asks Knish for the money but is refused out of principle. During the conversation with Knish, Mike reveals his motivation for taking the ill-fated risk at KGB's club and why he thinks he can compete and possibly win the World Series of Poker. He even quotes Worm saying that Knish 'sees all the angles but doesn't have the stones to play any' after Knish had already refused to help financially. Desperate, Mike asks his law school professor Petrovsky (Martin Landau), who loans him $10,000. Mike challenges KGB to a second heads-up, No-Limit Texas Hold'em game for the remaining debt, with winner-take-all stakes, which KGB accepts. Mike beats KGB in the first session, winning $20,000. KGB offers to let Mike’s winnings 'ride' and continue the game, but Mike – with enough to pay off most of his debts – declines. As he is about to leave, KGB taunts Mike that he is paying him with the money he lost to KGB from their previous game. Mike changes his mind and decides to continue playing.

Mike doubles the blinds at the risk of losing everything to KGB again, and possibly his life. As the night wears on, Mike spots KGB's tell and folds, deducing KGB has a better hand. Irate at the missed chance to win it all, KGB begins to play on 'tilt'. In the final hand, Mike baits a boastful KGB into going all-in, and defeats him with a nut straight. KGB throws a tantrum at having been lured into a mistake. Despite Grama’s urging, KGB, rattled, calls off his goons and admits Mike won fairly, allowing him to leave with his winnings.

With over $60,000, Mike settles Worm’s $15,000 debt to Grama, the Chesterfield’s $6,000 credit, Petrovsky’s $10,000 loan, and restores his original bankroll of 'three stacks of high society.' Mike drops out of law school, says goodbye to Jo, and leaves New York for Las Vegas to play in the World Series of Poker.

Cast[edit]

• Matt Damon as Mike McDermott
• Edward Norton as Lester 'Worm' Murphy
• John Turturro as Joey Knish, character inspired by wry underground poker player Joel 'Bagels' Rosenberg^[2]
• John Malkovich as Teddy KGB
• Famke Janssen as Petra
• Michael Rispoli as Grama
• Martin Landau as Abe Petrovsky
• Gretchen Mol as Jo
• Paul Cicero as Russian Thug
• Melina Kanakaredes as Barbara
• Josh Mostel as Zagosh
• Tom Aldredge as Judge Marinacci
• Lenny Clarke as Savino
• Chris Messina as Higgins
• Goran Višnjić as Maurice
• David Zayas as Osborne
• Johnny Chan as himself
• Bill Camp as Eisenberg
• Josh Pais as Weitz
• Adam LeFerve as Sean Frye

Production[edit]

Filming[edit]

Principal photography for Rounders began in December 1997; it took place mostly in New York. Exceptions include the law school scenes (filmed at Rutgers School of Law-Newark^[3]) and the State Trooper poker game and parking lot scenes (filmed at the B.P.O Elks Lodge in Ridgefield Park, New Jersey).

Reception[edit]

Box office[edit]

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Rounders was released on September 11, 1998, in 2,176 theaters and grossed $8.5 million during its opening weekend. It went on to make $22.9 million domestically.^[1]

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Critical response[edit]

On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a 65% approval rating based on 80 reviews, with an average score of 6.21/10. The site's critical consensus reads: 'Richly atmospheric and colorful performances contributed to the movie's entertainment value.' ^[4]Metacritic gives the film a score of 54 out of 100 based on 32 reviews, indicating 'mixed or average reviews'. ^[5]Film critic Roger Ebert gave the film three out of four stars and wrote: 'Rounders sometimes has a noir look but it never has a noir feel, because it's not about losers (or at least it doesn't admit it is). It's essentially a sports picture, in which the talented hero wins, loses, faces disaster, and then is paired off one last time against the champ.'^[6] In her review for The New York Times, Janet Maslin wrote: 'Though John Dahl's Rounders finally adds up to less than meets the eye, what does meet the eye (and ear) is mischievously entertaining.'^[7]USA Today gave the film three out of four stars and wrote: 'The card playing is well-staged, and even those who don't know a Texas hold-'em ('the Cadillac of poker') from a Texas hoedown will get a vicarious charge out of the action.'^[8]Entertainment Weekly gave the film a 'B' rating and Owen Gleiberman wrote, 'Norton, cast in what might have once been the Sean Penn role (hideous shirts, screw-you attitude), gives Worm a shifty, amphetamine soul and a pleasing alacrity ... Norton's performance never really goes anywhere, but that's okay, since the story is just an excuse to lead the characters from one poker table to the next.'^[9]

Peter Travers, in his review for Rolling Stone said of John Malkovich's performance: 'Of course, no one could guess the extent to which Malkovich is now capable of chewing scenery. He surpasses even his eyeballrolling as Cyrus the Virus in Con Air. Munching Oreo cookies, splashing the pot with chips (a poker no-no) and speaking with a Russian accent that defies deciphering ('Ho-kay, Meester sum of a beech'), Malkovich soars so far over the top, he's passing Pluto.'^[10] In his review for the San Francisco Chronicle, Mick LaSalle said of Damon's performance: 'Mike should supply the drive the film otherwise lacks, and Damon doesn't. We might believe he can play cards, but we don't believe he needs to do it, in the way, say, that the 12-year-old Mozart needed to write symphonies. He's not consumed with genius. He's a nice guy with a skill.'^[11] In his review for The Globe and Mail, Liam Lacey wrote: 'The main problem with Rounders is that the movie never quite knows what it is about: What is the moral ante?'^[12]

Despite an unremarkable theatrical release, Rounders has a following, particularly among poker enthusiasts.^[13]

There are pro poker players who credit the film for getting them into the game.^[14] The film drew in successful players such as Brian Rast, Hevad Khan, Gavin Griffin, and Dutch Boyd. Vanessa Rousso has said of the film's influence: 'There have been lots of movies that have included poker, but only Rounders really captures the energy and tension in the game. And that's why it stands as the best poker movie ever made.'^[14]

References[edit]

1. ^ ^abc'Rounders (1998)'. Box Office Mojo. IMDb. Retrieved February 21, 2015.
2. ^'Joel 'Bagels' Rosenberg, aka Joey Knish, Passes Away'. www.pokernewsdaily.com. Retrieved May 4, 2016.
3. ^https://www.newarkhappening.com/things-to-do/music-entertainment/film-spots/
4. ^https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1083659-rounders
5. ^https://www.metacritic.com/movie/rounders
6. ^Ebert, Roger (September 11, 1998). 'Rounders review'. Chicago Sun-Times. RogerEbert.com. Retrieved December 1, 2008.
7. ^Maslin, Janet (September 11, 1998). 'Knowing When to Hold 'em and Fold 'em but Just Not When to Run'. The New York Times. Retrieved December 1, 2008.
8. ^Wloszczyna, Susan (September 11, 1998). 'Rounders hedges bets with Damon in the ante'. USA Today. p. 11.
9. ^Gleiberman, Owen (September 18, 1998). 'Rounders review'. Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved November 25, 2009.
10. ^Travers, Peter (October 1, 1998). 'Rounders review'. Rolling Stone. Retrieved December 1, 2008.
11. ^LaSalle, Mick (September 11, 1998). 'Rounders Deals Out a Mediocre Hand'. San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved December 1, 2008.
12. ^Lacey, Liam (September 11, 1998). 'If they'd played their cards right, this could have been a winner'. The Globe and Mail. p. C7.
13. ^Tobias, Scott (October 30, 2008). 'The New Cult Canon: Rounders'. The Onion A.V. Club. Retrieved December 1, 2008.
14. ^ ^abPolson, Sarah (March 4, 2009). 'Pros discuss Rounders' impact on poker'. PokerListings.com. Retrieved February 21, 2015.

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External links[edit]

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• Rounders on IMDb
• Rounders at AllMovie
• Rounders at the TCM Movie Database
• Rounders at Rotten Tomatoes
• Rounders at Metacritic
• Rounders at Box Office Mojo

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