A professional poker player whose astounding luck at the table fails to translate into his lonesome love life attempts to win the World Series of Poker while simultaneously earning the affections of a beautiful Las Vegas singer.
Acting
Duvall and Bana's father-son warfare at the final table
Direction
Hanson's patient observation of Vegas as purgatory, not paradise
Cinematography
Golden hour desert light colliding with casino fluorescence
Director
Curtis Hanson
Eric Bana
Huck Cheever
Drew Barrymore
Billie Offer
Robert Duvall
L.C. Cheever
Debra Messing
Suzanne Offer
Jean Smart
Michelle Carson
Robert Downey Jr.
Telephone Jack
Horatio Sanz
Ready Eddie
Michael Shannon
Ray Zumbro
Kelvin Han Yee
Chico Banh
David Oppenheim
Josh Cohen
John Hennigan
Ralph Kaczynski
Charles Martin Smith
Roy Durucher
Saverio Guerra
Lester
Evan Jones
Jason Keyes
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Eric Bana spent months training with professional players including Jennifer Harman and Eric Seidel, who appear in the film.
Released during the 2007 poker boom, it flopped as audiences preferred the actual WSOP on ESPN to fictionalized drama.
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