Minute A Day About Movies
Tuesday Minute
No. 83 | April 27, 2010
Deal Me In
Our theme this week
Card games at the movies
Featured this week (theme introduction)
Monday — The Cincinnati Kid (1965)
Rounders (1998)
Rounders has nothing to do with that game from the early days of baseball. Rounders are people who make a living playing cards.
Matt Damon is a law school student who loses big and walks away from the game—for good, so he tells his girlfriend (Gretchen Mol). But it’s not easy staying out of the action when his buddy, played by Edward Norton, is released from prison.
Damon and Norton both give impressive performances, and their too-smart-for-the-room dialogue helps make it a memorable film. John Malkovich, in a performance that can only be called Malkovichian, plays a Russian mobster known as Teddy KGB.
Though it did modest business at the box office, Rounders drew a loyal following and was in part responsible for the recent popularity of Texas hold ‘em and for the glut of televised poker during the past decade.
Rounders
John Dahl, director
Matt Damon et al.
Rounders
Matt Damon, John Malkovich
Quote of Note
“Eddie. The guys and I were talking, we want to invite you to our card game on Friday night. Would you like that? Only thing is, you can’t cut!”
—George (Biff Yeager), Edward Scissorhands (1990)
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