Trust everyone... But always cut the cards.
Poker addict Mike McDermott knows the game inside out, but loses his money one night in a game to Russian-American gangster Teddy KGB. Promising his partner Jo he'll give up, he meets up with best friend Lester 'Worm' Murphy, just out of prison and owing lots of money to the wrong kind of people. McDermott becomes his co-guarantor and now there's only one way to raise the money, the pair have to get back into the game.
$12,000,000
$22,912,409
September 11, 1998
Miramax, Spanky Pictures
59 people
Matt Damon
Mike McDermott
Acting
Edward Norton
Lester 'Worm' Murphy
Acting
John Turturro
Joey Knish
Acting
Gretchen Mol
Jo
Acting
John Malkovich
Teddy KGB
Acting
Famke Janssen
Petra
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Martin Landau
Abe Petrovsky
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Michael Rispoli
Grama
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Goran Višnjić
Maurice
Acting
Mal Z. Lawrence
Irving
Acting
Paul Cicero
Russian Thug
Acting
Ray Iannicelli
Kenny
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