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Rounders
Poker addict Mike McDermott knows the game inside out, but loses his money one night in a game to Russian-American gangster Teddy KGB. Promising his partner Jo he'll give up, he meets up with best friend Lester 'Worm' Murphy, just out of prison and owing lots of money to the wrong kind of people. McDermott becomes his co-guarantor and now there's only one way to raise the money, the pair have to get back into the game.
1998 · Directed by John Dahl · 121 min · Drama · Crime · 20 frames
Tagline
Trust everyone... But always cut the cards.
Crew
- Screenplay: David Levien, Brian Koppelman
- Cinematography: Jean-Yves Escoffier
- Edited by: Scott Chestnut
- Music: Christopher Young
- Production design: Robert Pearson
- Produced by: Ted Demme, Joel Stillerman
Cast
- Matt Damon as Mike McDermott
- Edward Norton as Lester 'Worm' Murphy
- John Turturro as Joey Knish
- Gretchen Mol as Jo
- John Malkovich as Teddy KGB
- Famke Janssen as Petra
- Martin Landau as Abe Petrovsky
- Michael Rispoli as Grama
- Goran Višnjić as Maurice
- Mal Z. Lawrence as Irving
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: Russian, English, Hebrew
- Studios: Miramax, Spanky Pictures
- Budget: $12,000,000
- Box office: $22,912,409
- Themes: new york city, friendship, casino, poker, gambling, call girl, bratva (russian mafia), gambling debt, roulette, gain
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