Top Three Gambling Movies
Here are our picks for the top three gambling movies for today.Welcome to my page of the latest Feature Movie Reviews. This page will be constantly updated with three new movie descriptions for those of you who don't really know where to start when looking for a gambling movie. Here, you'll find three great gambling movies, picked from the extensive list of gambling movies on this site. Hopefully this short list will at least give you at starting point if you want to watch a gambling movie. On the other hand, you might just be looking for a new gambling movie to watch, and this page might just give you the title of one you've never watched before. Or you saw it long ago, and have forgotten about it until now, that is. So have a look at this list of gambling movies, and if you have a gambling movie in mind that you think should be featured on this page. I'll definitely take your suggestion into account when I'm renewing the information on this page. Enjoy!
| World Poker Tour - Best of Season 3 - 2005 | |
 | Along with CELEBRITY POKER SHOWDOWN and WORLD SERIES OF BLACKJACK, the Travel Channel's WORLD POKER TOUR series has transformed a normally sedate card game into a thrillingly popular spectator sport. Hosted by former model Shana Hiatt, the series travels to exotic locations across the globe to cover high-stakes poker tournaments with hidden-camera technology that allows viewers to see the players' cards, as well as expert commentary by poker champs Mike Sexton and Vince Van Patten that help explain every nuance of the game. This collection presents the best of WORLD POKER TOUR's third season for eight episodes that travel to the Borgata Poker Open in Atlantic City, the Grand Prix de Paris in France, the WPT World Championship in Las Vegas, and more. |
| Ringer - 2005 | |
 | Peter and Bobby Farrelly have always expressed an especially warm but unsentimental attitude in their films toward those with disabilities. THE RINGER, which they produced (but neither wrote nor directed), takes this trait to feverish new heights. JACKASS-cum-leading man stars Johnny Knoxville as office schmo Steve Barker, whose request for more responsibility at his job indirectly results in the severing of four fingers from the hand of Stavi, the mild-mannered office janitor. When Steve requests financial help from his morally-questionable gambling addict Uncle Gary (Brian Cox), Stevie finds himself posing as "Jeffy" an athlete in the Special Olympics whose victory against track champion Jimmy (Leonard Flowers) could spell an end to Uncle Gary’s debts and the reattaching of Stavi’s fingers. Though a basic description of its premise would make most viewers cry foul, THE RINGER skirts the obvious charge of exploitation by making the mentally challenged characters the only ones to realize that Steve is only acting handicapped. Steve’s fellow Olympians are cast with a combination of veteran character actors and real-life former Special Olympians (most notably Edward Barbanell, John Taylor, and Leonard Flowers) who, while lending the film authenticity, also spark with comic timing and the true joy of being on camera. Knoxville once again makes an affable hero, and Ricky Blitt’s screenplay, while crass by nature, keeps true vulgarity at bay in favor of a good nature that makes simplicity an asset. |
| Conmen in Vegas - 1999 | |
 | Part of the GOD OF GAMBLERS epic, THE CONMEN IN VEGAS is another quirky comedy from consistently entertaining director Wong Jing. Hong Kong cinema star Andy Lau (HOUSE OF FLYING DAGGERS) returns as one of three conmen hired by the Chinese government to seek out Peter Chu, an even bigger conman who fled from China to the United States. In possession of stolen funds, this crook is living the high life in none other than Las Vegas. Jumping at the chance to take a vacation, King (Lau) and his partners board the plane for what's sure to be a wild adventure in the city that prides itself on excess. |