Posts Tagged ‘gambling’

All Dogs Go to Heaven (1989)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Animation | Drama | Family | Musical
Countries: Ireland | UK
Actors: Burt Reynolds | Dom DeLuise | Judith Barsi | Melba Moore | Daryl Gilley | Candy Devine | Charles Nelson Reilly | Vic Tayback | Rob Fuller | Earleen Carey | Anna Manahan | Nigel Pegram | Loni Anderson | Ken Page | Godfrey Quigley
Directors: Don Bluth
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When a casino owning dog named Charlie is murdered by his rival Carface, he finds himself in Heaven basically by default since all dogs to heaven. However, since he wants to get back at his killer, he cons his way back to the living with the warning that doing that damns him to Hell. Once back, he teams with his old partner, Itchy to prep his retaliation. He also stumbles on to an orphan girl who can talk to the animals, thus allowing him to get the inside info on the races to ensure his wins to finance his plans. However, all the while, he is still haunted by nightmares on what’s waiting for him on the other side unless he can prove that he is worthy of Heaven again.

Kingpin (1996)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Sport
Countries: USA
Actors: Woody Harrelson | Randy Quaid | Vanessa Angel | Bill Murray | Chris Elliott | William Jordan | Richard Tyson | Lin Shaye | Zen Gesner | Prudence Wright Holmes | Rob Moran | Daniel Greene | Will Rothhaar | Mark Charpentier | Brad Faxon
Directors: Bobby Farrelly | Peter Farrelly
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Roy Munson (Woody Harrelson) was raised to be the best bowler in the world (trained early on by his father). But a fellow bowler, Ernie McCracken (Bill Murray) and a misunderstanding with some rough punks, leaves poor Roy with the loss of his bowling hand! Not to let this get him down, he gets a prosthetic hand and becomes a traveling sales man. But it’s really all down hill for him from that night on until … One day he meets Ishmael (Randy Quaid) who’s a Quaker that sneaks away from the farm to bowl (his fellow Quakers would disown him if they knew)! Roy convinces Ishmael to let him be his trainer and he’ll make him the best bowler the world has ever seen. Reluctantly Ismael agrees to go on the road and shortly afterwards actually finds that life outside the farm is quite fun. Soon their paths cross that of Ernie McCracken who is still top ranking bowler. While Roy’s career and life have landed in the toilet bowl, Ernie is still drawing huge crowds and all the babes! They both square off for the untimate bowling championship … to see which one truly IS the champion. To find that out you’ll have to see this funny and original movie. Bill Murray is at his best, since Caddyshack. Randy Quaid makes some daring choices that really work and Woody Harrelson brings us the comdey style from “Cheers” that made him a household name!

Money Train (1995)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Comedy | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Wesley Snipes | Woody Harrelson | Jennifer Lopez | Robert Blake | Chris Cooper | Joe Grifasi | Scott Sowers | Skipp Sudduth | Vincent Laresca | Nelson Vasquez | Vincent Patrick | Aida Turturro | Alvaleta Guess | Vincent Pastore | David Tawil
Directors: Joseph Ruben
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Two foster brothers (Woody Harrelson and Wesley Snipes) work as transit cops. While one’s life is as good as it gets, the other’s is a pit. After losing his job, getting dumped by his brother, and getting the crap kicked out of him by a loan shark for the umpteenth time, He implements his plan to steal the “money train,” a train carrying the New York Subway’s weekly revenue. But when things go awry, will his brother be able to save him in time?

Tombstone (1993)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama | Romance | Western
Countries: USA
Actors: Kurt Russell | Val Kilmer | Sam Elliott | Bill Paxton | Powers Boothe | Michael Biehn | Charlton Heston | Jason Priestley | Jon Tenney | Stephen Lang | Thomas Haden Church | Dana Delany | Paula Malcomson | Lisa Collins | Dana Wheeler-Nicholson
Directors: George P. Cosmatos
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After success cleaning up Dodge City, Wyatt Earp moves to Tombstone, Arizona, and wishes to get rich in obscurity. He meets his brothers there, as well as his old friend Doc Holliday. A band of outlaws that call themselves The Cowboys are causing problems in the region with various acts of random violence, and inevitably come into confrontation with Holliday and the Earps, which leads to a shoot-out at the OK Corral.

007 On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | Romance | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: George Lazenby | Diana Rigg | Telly Savalas | Gabriele Ferzetti | Ilse Steppat | Lois Maxwell | George Baker | Bernard Lee | Bernard Horsfall | Desmond Llewelyn | Yuri Borionko | Virginia North | Geoffrey Cheshire | Irvin Allen | Terence Mountain
Directors: Peter R. Hunt
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Whilst on leave, British agent James Bond prevents a young woman, Tracy Draco, from committing suicide. Her father is the head of a powerful crime syndicate who is impressed by Bond and wants him to protect his daughter by marrying her. In exchange he offers Bond information which will lead 007 to his arch enemy Ernst Blofeld. At first Bond agrees to the deal purely to fulfil his objective to kill Blofeld but later he grows to love Tracy but when the British learn that Blofeld plans to destroy mankind with a deadly virus, 007 is torn between his loyalty to his county and his intent to marry Tracy.

Casino (1995)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: France | USA
Actors: Robert De Niro | Sharon Stone | Joe Pesci | James Woods | Frank Vincent | Pasquale Cajano | Don Rickles | Kevin Pollak | Vinny Vella | Alan King | L. Q. Jones | Dick Smothers | Joseph Rigano | John Bloom | Melissa Prophet
Directors: Martin Scorsese
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This Martin Scorsese film depicts the Janus-like quality of Las Vegas—it has a glittering, glamorous face, as well as a brutal, cruel one. Ace Rothstein and Nicky Santoro, mobsters who move to Las Vegas to make their mark, live and work in this paradoxical world. Seen through their eyes, each as a foil to the other, the details of mob involvement in the casinos of the 1970’s and ’80’s are revealed. Ace is the smooth operator of the Tangiers casino, while Nicky is his boyhood friend and tough strongman, robbing and shaking down the locals. However, they each have a tragic flaw—Ace falls in love with a hustler, Ginger, and Nicky falls into an ever-deepening spiral of drugs and violence.

Two for the Money (2005)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Sport | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Al Pacino | Matthew McConaughey | Rene Russo | Armand Assante | Jeremy Piven | Jaime King | Kevin Chapman | Ralph Garman | Gedde Watanabe | Carly Pope | Charles Carroll | Gerard Plunkett | Craig Veroni | James Kirk | Chrislyn Austin
Directors: D.J. Caruso
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Brandon Lang loves football: an injury keeps him from the pros, but his quarterback’s anticipation makes him a brilliant predictor of games’ outcomes. Needing money, he leaves Vegas for Manhattan to work for Walter Abrams advising gamblers. Walter has a doting wife, a young daughter, and a thriving business, but he has problems: a bum heart, a belief he’s a master manipulator, and addictions barely kept in check. He remakes Brandon, and a father-son relationship grows. Then, things go awry. Walter may be running a con. The odds against Brandon mount.

Donnie Brasco (1997)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Al Pacino | Johnny Depp | Michael Madsen | Bruno Kirby | James Russo | Anne Heche | Zeljko Ivanek | Gerry Becker | Robert Miano | Brian Tarantina | Rocco Sisto | Zach Grenier | Walt MacPherson | Ronnie Farer | Terry Serpico
Directors: Mike Newell
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This true story follows FBI agent Joe Pistone as he infiltrates the mafia of New York. Befriending Lefty Ruggiero, Pistone (under the name Donnie Brasco) is able to embed himself in a mafia faction lead by Sonny Black. Ruggiero and Pistone become tight as the group goes about collecting money for ‘the bosses’. Eventually, the group become big time when Black himself becomes a boss, all the while Pistone collects evidence. However, the trials and tribulations of the undercover work become more than Pistone can bear. His marriage falls apart and to top it off, the mafia suspect a mole in the organization. The real dilemma is afforded to Pistone, who knows if he walks away from the mafia, Ruggiero will be the one punished.

Casablanca (1942)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Humphrey Bogart | Ingrid Bergman | Paul Henreid | Claude Rains | Conrad Veidt | Sydney Greenstreet | Peter Lorre | S.Z. Sakall | Madeleine LeBeau | Dooley Wilson | Joy Page | John Qualen | Leonid Kinskey | Curt Bois
Directors: Michael Curtiz
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During World War II, Europeans who were fleeing from the Germans, sought refuge in America. But to get there they would first have to go Casablanca and once they get there, they have to obtain exit visas which are not very easy to come by. Now the hottest spot in all of Casablanca is Rick’s Cafe which is operated by Rick Blaine, an American expatriate, who for some reason can’t return there, and he is also extremely cynical. Now it seems that two German couriers were killed and the documents they were carrying were taken. Now one of Rick’s regulars, Ugarte entrusts to him some letters of transit, which he intends to sell but before he does he is arrested for killing the couriers. Captain Renault, the Chief of Police, who is neutral in his political views, informs Rick that Victor Laszlo, the European Resistance leader, is in Casablanca and will do anything to get an exit visa but Renault has been “told” by Major Strasser of the SS, to keep Laszlo in Casablanca. Laszlo goes to Rick’s to meet Ugarte, because he was the one Ugarte was going to sell the letters to. But since Ugarte was arrested he has to find another way. Accompanying him is Ilsa Lund, who knew Rick when he was in Paris, and when they meet some of Rick’s old wounds reopen. It is obvious that Rick’s stone heart was because of her leaving him. And when they learn that Rick has the letters, he refuses to give them to him, because “he doesn’t stick his neck out for anyone”.

Ransom (1996)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Mel Gibson | Rene Russo | Brawley Nolte | Gary Sinise | Delroy Lindo | Lili Taylor | Liev Schreiber | Donnie Wahlberg | Evan Handler | Nancy Ticotin | Michael Gaston | Kevin Neil McCready | Paul Guilfoyle | Allen Bernstein | José Zúñiga
Directors: Ron Howard
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Tom Mullen, rich airline owner, is shocked when his son is kidnapped. He is willing to pay the two million dollar ransom, but the drop goes wrong. So Tom turns the ransom money into a bounty on the head of the kidnapper.