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Directed by: Richard Kwietniowski
Starring: Philip Seymour Hoffman (Dan Mahowny), Minnie Driver (Belinda), Maury Chaykin (Perlin), John Hurt (Casino manager), Chris Collins (Bernie), Sonja Smits (Dana), Ian Tracey (Detective)
Country: Canada; Effed Up Canadian Films
Language: English (Optional Eng Subs)
Runtime: 01:45:16
Genres: Based on a True Story, Misc Paraphilias, Depressing-Mental Illness
Plot – Spoilers:
Things seem to be looking up for recently-promoted banker, Mahowny. The bosses love him as does his girlfriend, despite his male friends thinking he walks around looking like a douchebag. The girlfriend’s even been talking about getting a new place so they can move in together. But Mahowny lives spartan. Thinks twice before eating fancy and drives a beatup car because all of his earnings go into the track. And when he’s not able to cover new bets, he hits the casino with money embezzled from loans written out to fake and real clients. Early into Mahowny’s time at the casino, he sees gambling junkies begging for a hit, but doesn’t identify with them at all and rather sees himself as someone simply trying to solve a financial shortfall.
Philip Seymour Hoffman takes the real story of Brian Molony and makes him instantly identifiable for anyone who’s had a gambling addiction. The rush that clouds the value of the big amounts you’re playing with. It’s not greed anymore beyond a point because you don’t really get what’s being staked. They’re just numbers without value until hindsight kicks in much much later. You go on and on just to maintain the rush without even realizing that’s all you’ve been doing.
Owning Mahowny is one of the greatest depictions of losing money because it also captures the feeling of needing to empty everything you have long after the hope of winning it all back has passed. Almost as if losing it all is the only way to finish what you started.
if you’re a fan of PSH, this is an absolute must watch. this one doesn’t get brought up as often when people talk about his films, but he portrays the character very well.
its no secret that gambling can become one of the most destructive addictions one can deal with, and with the pervasiveness of online casinos and sports betting apps, I worry that more people than ever are falling down this slippery slope. many movies have been made that center around drug addiction and alcoholism, but there aren’t many that center on the damaging effects that gambling can have on you and those around you if you aren’t careful.
this movie portrays the pains of a gambling addiction in a sincere in honest way, as only PSH could do. RIP king
for a second I thought the fat guy in the cover was Jack Black
Two years for stealing millions of dollars. The more you steal the less you suffer.
Most defintely should give a credit to drivers wig.
It seems to me the movie’s all on Hoffman, but this doesn’t make it a bad movie since it’s enough well orchestrated to do exactly that: rest on the protagonist’s shoulder while assigning to everyone around him little conservative touches here and there just to keep it on track; which think about it might suit very well in a sort of visual metaphor the self-absorption of addiction. …Actually, pushing harder and awarely in that direction with clear vision is what could have turned the movie into something more. Mostly the other characters aren’t that real and deep but even when they lean toward the charicatural they don’t dive into that strongly enough so to be considered just a projection of the protagonist’s mind or sort of ghost to which he can’t give that much attention. Yea, they should be more ghostly, more “mute” or silenced,muffled, . Anyhow enjoyable and the real story behind it is strong (even if you shouldn’t completlly buy into the one-guilty/everyone-else-completely-innocent angle), and Hoffmann kicks it up a notch from being possibly too average or televisisch. It’s not something I’d rewatch, but I would just to hang out more with his Dan
Really good. Phillip Seymore Hoffman movies are usually good. This is like a cross between Glengarry Glen Ross, Margin Call and Before The Devil Knows You’re Dead. The music score sounds like it was done by the same guy that did Glengarry Glen Ross. No tits or ass, no violence, no car chases. Just a straight up drama based on a true story. I’m not fucking blown away by it like I was when I saw The Exorcist but I’d say it’s about 3 and a half stars. Would I say that it’s effed up in any way, shape or form? No, but I’m not the only person on Earth, now am I.
That was a really good movie!!
Hoffman was extremely believeable in this role.
Really good movie, thanks again effedup, I watched great movies in this site.
i almost envy dan for his passion. its pussy or cards then.
“Always bet on black” – Wesley Snipes ‘Passenger 57’
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