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!
| The Grifters - 1990 | |
 | Academy Award(R)-winning actress Anjelica Huston, John Cusack, and Annette Bening star in this acclaimed hit where seduction and betrayal could lead to murder! When small-time cheat Roy Dillon (Cusack) winds up in the hospital following an unsuccessful scam, it sets up a confrontation between his estranged mother Lilly (Huston) and sexy girlfriend Myra (Bening). Both Lilly and Myra are ruthless confidence artists playing the con game in a league far above Roy ... and always looking for their next victim! The question soon becomes who's conning who as Roy finds himself caught in a complicated web of passion and mistrust! |
| Pool Hall Junkies - 2003 | |
 | Quoting from a score of tough-guy classics like THE HUSTLER, MEAN STREETS, and ON THE WATERFRONT, Mars Callahan writes, directs, and stars in this saga of pool and redemption. Johnny (Callahan) is a natural ace player held back from the pro circuit by his greedy mentor Joe (Chazz Palminteri), who wants to keep him hustling in smoky pool halls. At the encouragement of his law student girlfriend (Alison Eastwood), Johnny tries to go straight. Of course he has a kid brother (Michael Rosenbaum) who idealizes him in all the wrong ways; when he winds up in big trouble, only Johnny can bail him out by going back to the life he left behind. Christopher Walken shows up and steals the show as a strange lawyer who bankrolls Johnny against Joe in the big game climax. Rick Schroder plays the pro Johnny must beat to save the day; Rod Steiger is the hall's grizzled proprietor. POOLHALL JUNKIES is a lot of fun. Callahan's infectious love of the game shines through in every spectacular shot and Walken is at his bizzaro best. Fans of the films Callahan emulates should appreciate his heartfelt homage to cinematic coolness. |
| One Last Ride - 2003 | |
 | Michael seems to have everything going for him. A great marriage to his wife Gina, who any day is about to deliver their first child, a secure and successful career as a salesman in the garment district of Los Angeles, and Carmine, his childhood friend whose common sense is slightly off kilter but who would go to the ends of the earth for Michael. Yet what seems to be a perfect world on the outside for Michael is only a facade for the demons that live and fester well beneath the surface. Unlike other dysfunctional diseases, a compulsive gambler becomes a master of illusion, hiding the beast that lives within and turning his soul into the bowels of hell. Michael dumps his entire paycheck on what he believes to be the horse tip of the century. But when he realizes he’s been duked by the jockey, Michael is unable to control himself, turning an ordinary day at the race track into a Keystone Comedy. As Michael begins to struggle with the demons inside, a debt begins to mount, sending him spiraling down that deep dark gambling hole. Desperation rages and it’s not long before he begins to sell his soul, stealing from his boss, hocking family heirlooms and forging his mother-in-law’s check to make good on a $41,000.00 obligation to an uncompromising loan shark named Tweat. After listening to Carmine concoct some hair brain scheme to come up with the cash, Michael’s desperation forces him to accept from Tweat what he believes is a one time harmless job to pay off his mounting debt in full. But all is not what it appears to be as Michael and Carmine find themselves in deeper than their wildest imagination could have dreamed of. For the first time Michael realizes what he has truly become as he comes face to face with the beast that lives within. |