Rounders

John Dahl directed this exploration of New York private golf equipment committed to excessive-stakes poker, with first-person narration from the movie’s central parent, regulation pupil Mike McDermott (Matt Damon), who loses his complete savings to Russian club proprietor Teddy KGB (John Malkovich). Mike then turns far from cards, devoting his attentions to his law research and his stay-in lady friend Jo (Gretchen Mol), who’s worried whilst Mike’s former gambling friend Worm (Edward Norton) is launched from prison. She has precise purpose to worry, because it takes Worm simplest a depend of minutes to attract Mike returned into poker motion. When she learns Mike has lower back to the poker clubs, she movements out, and Mike starts to lose interest in his research. Worm has a jail debt, and the threatening Grama (Michael Rispoli) wants the cash. Mike now not most effective indulges the irresponsible Worm, he gets worried in Worm’s debts. When Grama demands $15,000 on a five-day closing date, the two friends cross into excessive equipment with a non-forestall, no-sleep gambling binge that spirals downward towards an closing war of words with Teddy KGB. tt0128442